Mooseman Triathlon Festival - Half Iron Distance - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Pretty good swim - glad to see that I was faster this year, after doing more intense swim training with Masters this spring. On the leg coming back my navigation sucked - ended up way to the right and had to make my way back. Didn't push hard, just tried to keep it smooth and glide.

T1 time rank was 224th out of 512 finishers.

Not very happy with this ride - 6 or 7 minutes slower on the second loop than on the first. A lot of the time I felt like I just had nothing in my legs, and my motivation started to drop at several points. Fortunately I decided to not try to push it, keep spinning when I could, and try to save myself for the run. I think if I had tried to make up some more time or push harder the run would not have been great.

Ride more - nowhere near enough bike training this spring.

T2 time rank 73rd of 512

Pretty happy with this transition, especially considering the size of the transition area.

Definitely happy with this run. I wanted to see how close to 7 minute miles I could keep my pace. Hit the first mile in 6:30, then kept the next 5 miles right at or under 7 minutes. Started having some trouble after turning for the second loop - legs started feeling crampy, then started feeling pain where I had bruised my knee yesterday, and I hit some miles closer to 8 minutes each. Rebounded around mile 10 or 11, and ran closer to 7's for the last few miles.

Grabbed some food, talked with Jeff and Mike about their amazing performances.


The bike. Strangely enough, I had a really good run and swim, and those are the areas where I've done the most training this winter and spring.


Even though I didn't go sub-5, and the bike sucked, the rest of the race was great, and I beat last years time by 16 minutes (most of it on the run).

My three half IM races so far:
Mooseman 2007 s35:23 T1 2:31 b2:53:02 T2 1:22 r1:35:07
Mooseman 2006 s37:49 T1 3:00 b2:53:58 T2 2:14 r1:46:18
Timberman 2005 s45:39 T1 4:00 b3:02:22 T2 2:17 r2:04:25

Great to see so many BTers this weekend - HUGE congratulations to Jeff (Jackemy) and Mike (MikeJ) on just destroying their first ever halfs, both of them in just over 5 hours.