Rock Man Triathlon - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Swim was a bit of a battle royal until the first bouy. But it was workable.

Not much. I tried to position my self well. It was difficult with the mass start.

I need to work on taking off my suit more. I had only swam with it twice before.

More practice with my suit. and get tri bike shoes to speed up the transition.

My bike chain came off twice. It made me reluctant to shift gears too much to adjust for the hills. so I was not in the best gear all the time. My hip really started to hurt and gave me problems throughout the entire ride. I had a good pace for the conditions of myself and the bike but I could have made for better conditions through training.

I would train more on my bike. And i would test the condition of the bike more before the race.

Very good transition. It probalbly would have been a 45 sec transition but I sat down to stretch my hip so I would not have problems on the run.

I would not have stretched my hip to get faster. but it was need this day.

I really was running soundly for the first 6-8 miles. I really started to struggle on mile 9 and continued through out the race. I think I missed the salt intake window during the run and it cost me about 10 -15 min on the run.

I would have worked electrolyte pills in my nutririon plan better. and trained will more hills.

I walkd and stretched out my legs and hips.


My nutrition plan hurt me on the run. and lack of training on my own bike. I could have worked more similar terrain. it would have helped a little.


This was an excellent race for the cost. I could not have expected better. I would have liked a t-shirt but Chip would have had to charge more for it.