Ironman 70.3 Florida - Triathlon

Had a fight starting at first 300 in ! WTC seem to have waves backwards and we was catching waves that went off over 15 min before my wave took off. Not a huge deal but a mass start seems much easier to me.

Not wear wetsuit ! Got a bit warm last 500 heading in. Day before race it was 72 and felt OK but between the 2 degrees warmer and all the fighting it got too hot .

T1 was a oval that made for a long run out cause I was on the back side. SO because I forgot string for shoes to attach on bike I carried shoes and put them on while leaving T1. Made for an easier / faster run. there was small hill and drain grates and didnt wanna slip on that long run

nothing it went pretty good considering

Fun ride on all the hills, there was way more hills then I expected but nothing I could do about it but deal with them. Roads was CRAP on a lot of the course, was like riding RR tracks in many spots for miles. Made a long rough ride and beat the hell out of me at points

TRAIN !! Missed a lot of training being gone for 4 weeks and not being on my bike except 4 times in 6 weeks. Did what I could with what I had to work with. This was my longest ride since January so in all I think a pretty good day

Long run back in cause we had to reverse the same way out. Went well for a while till shoes started getting caught on the ground so I carried the back tire off ground to stop it.

nothing much I could do

HILLS again, first lap was good but got really packed on next 2 laps. The start put us on a sidewalk that we couldnt get off so people was walking and we had to wait for them to move. Slowed pace for a long while with nowhere to go, kinda saved legs a bit but could never make up for the loss of time. Seemed narrow much of the course and parts of road was torn up so it was dirt and broken pavement we had to run over

Bike training and jammed up run course


I think the WTC could have done some thing different considering the size of the event. I really wish they was still in Disney it was a much better ride and run. Swim wave could be adjusted to larger AG first. In all it was a OK race and I had a pretty good time. Might do it again , might not.