Ironman 70.3 Hawaii - Triathlon

Not a fan of the new swim. It didn't make sense to have some buoys on the left and some on the right. For this many people, allowing them to fan out on one side is best. Anyway, this caused a bottleneck at the start mainly, and mass confusion on the last segment. No one knew where they were due to heavy chop, head current, and sun in the face. Also lack of directional buoys on the last segment. Thumbs down to the swim race design.

luckily the water was fairly reasonable for most of the swim. but head current and chop worked us on the last segment to the finish. Nice and clear temp was great.

The usual chaos up the walkway into T1 and the mass of athletes and bikes clogging up the path. No problems mounting the bike though.

Bike started off ok, then the wind started acting up in Kawaihae, and then again heavy coming into Hawi before the turnaround. Very difficult the last few mile or so into the aid station. Then nice descent out of Hawi, but winds attacked again in Kawaihae, and sapped what I had left on the hills there. Pushed past Hapuna to T2 but was difficult.

T2 was ok, just pooped from the bike.

Run started hot, with little to no wind. The temp got higher and higher as the race progressed. Absolutely crazy hot on the golf course, and "Road to No where"

Not anything in particular, did the best I could.

Usual, drank draft Longboard YAY ! and ate the burger..YUM !


left heel bothering me, had a careful strategy planned for the run so not to destroy it further.


Did not like the new swim, but it worked.
The rest of the race was well done, as usual.