HITS Triathlon Series: Ocala - Half Iron Course - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Started out nice just followed the pack I could not see the first buoy for a long time. After the turn swam a little than for some reason took a hard right and headed out to the middle of the lake. Had to correct and get back on course. Hit the second turn and saw everyone walking but decided to swim and save my legs. Got off course to the right by about 20 yards and had to correct. Swam the rest of the way in (you should see my gps from the swim it’s a hoot) got out of the water in a really great time for me and headed to transition.

stay on course better. but it was hard to see the bouys

Generally had a good t1 except for spraying sunscreen in my eyes and blinding myself and breaking my sunglasses so I had to leave them behind. Piled a bunch of food on board with me just in case there was none on the course..

not spay suncreen in my eyes

Took off on the bike and started to move. Being from Chicago I have only had my race bike out once and never in race trim and wheels so I was a little cautious with the handling. The roads seemed very smooth to me and a couple seemed like riding on glass they were so fast. Passed a ton of people on the bike. Had to stay out of aero a lot because I was a little stiff and also was concerned about the wet pavement. So I probably only was in aero about 50% of the time. Had to get off my bike at the turn around because I could get my bike to turn that much. The goal of my bike was to keep my heart rate under 140 and have to pee at the end of the bike and was successful at both. The last 10 miles I backed down about 5% in order to better be able to run. But felt really good when I got off the bike.

stay in aero a lot more

really had to pee. but picked up my broken sunglasses and grab my stuff. I was hopping the towel I through over my running shoes would have kept them dry but that was not the case they where soaked. Finaal got to the bathroom so I could Pee (lost a minute there)

Lighten up the stuff I leave tranistion with Maybe only 1 bottle of water and 1 Gell

started the first lap in the shade of the path and was doing pretty good and ran the 9:30 I would expect this time of year off the bike. the plan at this point was to negitive split each third of the race but when hit the sunny part of the course I started to over heat so I ended up walking a bit. Ended up walk about 1.5 miles during the slight uphills the rest of the way and cruised into a somewhat disapointint time was really shooting for a 2 hour half but today was not the day. I am beging to think its a mentsal thing. some told me I had 17 minutes to do the last mile in so I made sure to hump it in in order to get under 6 hours

Just keep running. carry less crap on the run and lose wieght

sat in a chair to cathc my breath then headed out to cool down inthe water (really helped)


a little better food and some direction on one part of the run course whould be nice. Race director was really nice