Chesapeakeman Ultra Distance Triathlon - TriathlonFull Ironman

2 loop swim in a "protected" area of the Chesapeake Bay. It was a triangular course. The out and cross legs of the course were no problem, cruised right along and stayed on course. The back leg of the swim was tough. It was closest to the open water side of the "protected" area. Some decent waves in there mixed with trying to sight into the rising sun make staying on course difficult. I drifted off course a few times during this leg (x2).

All in all I had a good swim. Since this was more or less a training day for me, I wasn't pushing very hard. Just cruising along and practicing my sighting.

Will push a little harder for IMFL. I should be able to do this swim in 1:20 with proper sighting.

Apparently my T1 time was pretty quick. I grabbed my bag and dumped it on the floor in the changing tent. All seats were taken, so I stripped my wetsuit standing up. Put all my gear on, packed my swimming stuff back in the bag and headed out.

Nothing, pretty standard here.

Had a really good bike ride. Again since this was a training day for me, I really didn't push too hard. I hadn't yet ridden anything over 90 miles so I didn't want to burn my legs up.

I had to pee pretty bad coming out of the swim but figured I'd wait until the first bottle exchange at about mile 10. That came and there was no port o potty there =( I was livid. I was thinking here comes White Lake all over again. Luckily there was one at mile 20ish and I unloaded there and felt like a new man.

Had some nice unexpected tail wind for a portion of the course. That was a great boost. However, there was some sections of pretty decent head and cross winds as well. The whole course was windy really, in one direction or another.

When going into the wind, I just stayed in my power zones and didn't try to fight it too much. This really payed off towards the end of the ride as I was picking people off one after another. I hit my nutrition dead on and never really felt too fatigued. In hindsight, I probably could have pushed a bit harder and still ended up just fine but again I hadn't done the full distance before.

Just push a little harder, I know now for IMFL and I still have 6 weeks to train!

No T2 for me! Aqua Velo only! My T2 consisted of eating pizza and taking a hot shower!

I did take off for a little run after the race and my legs felt great. I had to slow myself down as they really wanted to churn out a quick pace. I feel like I could have ran the marathon had it been my day to do so. Great mental boost with 6 weeks to go until IMFL!

Really fun low key Iron Distance race. Only about 450 people total and I think like 150 of those were Aqua Velo. The only thing I didn't like were the shirts. We got 3 which was cool, but two of them have advertising all over the back for some race in 2010 and the third one has the wrong distance for the Aqua Velo. It says 1.2 mile swim!! All in all though, I would probably do it again someday, maybe next ear as a tune up for IMAZ, who knows!