Timberman - Half Iron - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

fastest amateur female split. Killed everyone in my wave, since this was a "fun" event for me I went pretty easy. Ran intolots of traffic from earlier waves especially at last turn heading backtoshore. Sun and sighting was a bit of a problem too -glad I was wearing polarized goggles.

not much, maybe sight better and go abit harder.

no splits...liked the suit strippers :)
my bike was in an awesome spot for transition.

nothing

Felt great on the boke - could have done another loop with no problem. I heard that the second hill on the way back was a killer, but it was not that bad at all! I think next year I will push a little harder on the bike, since this was my first 70.3 I wanted to be conservative.

I had a gu issue, I taped my gus to the bike and they kept falling all over the place, then I squirted the stuff all over my hands and it dripped on my bike and shoes. I was a sticky mess! Next time, will use once of those Gu holders. Also, should have pushed harder -made my "shoot the moon" goal of sub 2:50 but really wanted to average above 20 mph.

nosplit times, but I wasted :30 sec or so deciding to have salt tabs or not...

well, since I was only able to run for two weeks before the race after getting out of my walking cast for a stress fracture (was in a boot for over 6 weeks!) I think I did pretty well. Ran the first two miles at about 9 min pace, then started walking transitions, then started walking transitions and hills, then started walking 100 steps after running 400...

Hopefully next year I won't go into the race just coming off of a major injury. Given the circumstances, all I wanted to do was finish, which I did. Power walking over 1/ the run :)

ugh - theline for the food was insane! So, horded Cliff bars and water then stood in line for over two hours.


Injury


Other than having to wait in line for litterally over 2 hours this was a fantastic race. I definitely want to race it again next year...healthy! I could have grabbed a spot for 70.3 worlds but already planned on doing Escape to Bermuda the week before. Can't wait to do this race again next year!