High Cliff Triathlon - Half Ironman - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

never try to take your WS off in the water! Da

It was wild being in such a big body of water, so far from shore!

Take WS off in Transition area like I normally do!

Saw a 1st, naked buns in the transition area, unfortunatly they where male buns.

Had dislex-a-turn, turned left for the sprint @ "Fargo Springs Road" vs. right for the HIM. Must of been the 4.5 hours of sleep! Only wasted 1.1 miles or about 3 minutes, could have been much worse!

Saw several TRI lady's (out of the corner of my eye, not looking!) do open field pee's, this was a 1st!

Ask @ the turn!
:-)

Excellent support, full bottled water and Gatoraide @ 3 locations, the volunteers even ran to make the grab easier!

Saw alot of GURU and Griffith tri bikes? Never heard of them, maybe the company reps dumped a bunch of demo's to get exposure?

Great bike except for missed turn!

1st hill is a tough one, many walkers, my HR wnet through the roof! Trail running without prep stinks!

I was forced to keep my HR below my normal race HR of 165 due to the heat and I fought cramps in my hamstrings from mile 6 on.

Be better prepared, need to work on running in the heat, and read the coarse desciptions better!

Kissed Susan!


84*F temp with 60% RH


Great race would do it again.

My only complaints:
The transition area was tight, to many people where assigned to each rack, making it very difficult to set up gear.

The food @ post race would have been great after a cross country ski race, but it wasn't, it was hot, and the post race food was hot pulled pork, baked potatoes, and hot mixed vegitables. I tried some later and it was good, but all I wanted was cold water melon, cantalope, and a grape icy.

Race link (you can see my Bike mistake on the map, run the Map Player its the 1st T in the coarse going south, didn't use multisport mode):
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/invitation/email/accept.mb?sende...