Ironman 70.3 Canberra - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

I was happy with this. Bad by other's standards, good by mine. A great introduction to 70.3 swimming. My longest swim.

Had a bit of a panic attack just after the start. Really wanted to get out of the water. Settled myself down and continued.

more training, get to the start earlier, swim the first leg straight.

Decided to swim without my tri top as it sticks out of the top of the wetsuit. Had great difficulty getting the tri top over my wet body.

Lesson, either wear my tri top under my wetsuit or have a full zip tri top. Wet body and tired arms down combine will to get a tight top on. Maybe consider just wearing a bike top for the bike leg, then a singlet for the run.

Happy with this. Target was three hours. My first 90k race.

Question: Why do people overtake you, then slow down to have a drink, which causes you to have to drop back out of the drafting zone before overtaking???

I was surprised (and disappointed) by the number of gel wrappers discarded on the course. Really no need for this.

Drink station bottle changeovers were good.

Not much.

ok transition. Sun screen on, hat on, and off I go.

I was disappointed with this. After about 5 kms I had a sore right foot. Around the little toe. Did not want to do major damage so slowed down. Used run/walk 4/1 almost all of the way. I was actually hoping for 2:05/2:10

One toilet stop on the run. About 10km out started to get really sick of GUs. Ended up cutting across to Coke. Need to sort this out for Ironman distance.

Hot.

Not get a sore foot! Dunno, maybe I was a little underdone for the run, but I did finish fresh enough. I think without the sore foot I could have done the time pretty easily.

Food, walking and talking


sore foot in the run


better organisation at the swim start would have been good. Many people missed getting to the start line on time. I just made it, by about a second. Found a position near the start, looked up to see the first buoy and the horn went off.