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Ironman 70.3 St. George - Triathlon
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Comments: My slowest HIM swim yet. I guess I need to start training the swim again. Didn't train the swim much for my last HIM 5 years ago, and even less this time. The biggest issue was that my left calf muscle cramped up badly on the final segment of the swim, forcing me to hold my foot at a rigid 90 degree angle to relieve the pain while I finished the last few hundred yards. Also, I never managed to catch a draft off of anybody this time. Note to self: my same goggles from last time which leaked, they leaked again on this swim. If I'm reading this race report for the next tri in 5 years, REMEMBER TO ADJUST GOGGLES FIRST !!!  Transition 1
Comments: Don't know my T1/T2 times, but this race had wetsuit strippers. That worked pretty well. Volunteers were awesome. What would you do differently?: Didn't bother practicing transitions. I'm really not sure if it cost me much, maybe a minute per transition max. I'll worry about it if I suddenly get 25% faster overall. :)  Bike
Comments: Was in a late wave (18/21). Dear god, there must have been 100 dropped bottles at least on the course in the first ten miles due to the rough surface on that section. One rider lost a bottle directly in front of me. Apparently nobody bothers to stay right any longer. I ended up passing on the right a few times and over the yellow more than once. I guess if people are going to treat the bike like a casual Sunday ride going side be side and chatting, then you gotta do what you gotta do. There was little advantage to being able to slingshot because people were all over the course, and you didn't want to come up close on someone's wheel as you went around because of the water spraying behind every bike from the wet roads. What would you do differently?: I don't know what to do differently. Weather conditions were very tough -- cold, windy, and raining for most of the 56 miles. I left my arm warmers, gloves and riding jacket behind at T1 and just went out in the tri suit. I'd have been wet and frozen either way, so it was probably just as well. Transition 2
Comments: Thank goodness I had the foresight to put a pair of dry socks in my T2 bag with my running shoes. Since the run ended up being dry, the dry socks were a godsend. Initially I racked my bike at the wrong spot about ten numbers away from my bag. I wasn't thinking super clearly due to being so cold and had a hard time reading the tag numbers. What would you do differently?: I forgot to pull my feet out of my bike shoes before arriving at the dismount line. I was so cold and completely soaked by that point that I was just on autopilot. Somehow many others managed to get a foil blanket to wrap up in, but I didn't see where people were getting those so I just went to my spot and transitioned.  Run
Comments: Very hilly course. But I was better prepared for this HIM run than any of my previous ones, and it really helped out. I actually was passing more people than were passing me on the first 4-5 miles -- that was a first for me. Then it balanced out from mile 6 to 10. By the final three miles when it was a descent, my stomach went sideways and completely cramped in distress. I had to dial it back at that point, which killed me, because I gave up probably six spots in my age group over that last stretch. Oh well. What would you do differently?: I'm wondering if I had popped a couple of pepto bismol tabs about half way through the run if it might have helped. I've never tried that. But it seems like at every race I end up with an unhappy gut by some point on the run no matter what or how much I take in on the bike. Post race
Warm down: Warm down? Ha ha ha. Maybe dethawing would be a better description of this post-race. What limited your ability to perform faster: Stomach cost me 5-6 minutes over last three miles of the run. I had the stomach flu at the start of taper week, so I can't be sure if maybe that didn't play a factor. Event comments: Ironman puts on a really great race. St George was a very neat town, and the community seemed to largely support this event, which was really appreciated -- people out in front of their homes cheering us on at many points of the race. Thank you St. George !! The course is very challenging. This was my first crack at it. I'm not sure if I will be back right away, but hopefully again at some point. This was as challenging a course as I would really ever want to face. From older race reports and conversations I had with other athletes, it sounds like this location can hit you with tough weather pretty much every year, be it high heat, winds, or cold rain. For accommodations, I was happy with the Quality Inn South Bluff. Room was really inexpensive, quiet and reasonably comfortable for the price, and those guys put a full breakfast out there by 3:30AM for Ironman participants. How cool is that? Last updated: 2016-02-29 12:00 AM
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 2016-05-08 9:23 PM |
Master  3127     Sunny Southern Cal |  Subject: Ironman 70.3 St. George |
| 2016-05-10 2:59 PM in reply to: #5180764 |
Elite 4583 | Subject: RE: Ironman 70.3 St. George Nice race! I did St. George in '14 and '15 and really lucked out with great weather--if I remember last year was a little on the hot side. It is a challenging course for sure--but so beautiful! |
| 2016-05-15 1:44 PM in reply to: #5180764 |
Master 2855 Kailua, Hawaii | Subject: RE: Ironman 70.3 St. George Great job, way to go on a tough race ! I was in Moab same time as this race, and we were getting weird weather the whole time. Hail, rain, cold, hot..basically everything. I talked to some people that went to Zion and they had cold rain. |
| 2016-05-16 4:01 PM in reply to: metafizx |
| 1520 Cypress, Texas | Subject: RE: Ironman 70.3 St. George It looks like I don't need to write a Race Report. I can just reference yours. I got the calf cramp a little before the half way mark of the swim. I didn't figure out the 90 deg. bend to relieve the cramp and had to switched to back stroke. Poor sighting with the back stroke cost me more time than the 50% slower stroke did. I was 8 minutes over my predicted swim time. I went pretty hard the first 38 miles of the bike ride. It was just too much fun with all the people to pass and the great hill to cruise over. Yes, I passed over the yellow line a few times but don't think I ever passed on the right. Sometimes I was passing 4-5 bikes wide though with slower people on the inside and faster people on the outside. There was a solid line of bikes from the start to the finish of the race. I eased up before mile 40 for the ride because I didn't know how the Snow Canyon climb would go. That climb was either a killer or I over did it on the first 40 miles because I ended up walking the bike up the last 2/3 mile to the top of the hill (I am guessing It was a little of both). Going down the other side for the last 10 miles I was getting hypothermia. That 40+ MPH speed when I was wet and wearing nothing by a tri suit was freezing. They did offer me a solar blanket as I came through the gate to the T2 but I turned it down. I figured the only think that could warm me up was to get running. The run did the trick. The run wasn't any easier than the 2nd half of the swim of the canyon on the bike ride though. I ended up doing a lot of walking on miles 6-9 with all the hills, but was able to get back into a run with the down hill miles to the finish. My finish time was 5 hr 45 mins. I was probably way ahead of you due to an earlier wave start, but we defiantly did the same race. |
| 2016-05-16 4:31 PM in reply to: BlueBoy26 |
Veteran 2842 Austin, Texas | Subject: RE: Ironman 70.3 St. George Congrats on a great race in challenging conditions, to say the least! And if that's your worst swim, I want to swim like you! Matt
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