First time HIM finishers this weekend - sound off!

TH3....great job...you were flying on your run!!!

Jeep....super first 1/2IM....great bike split!!

I look forward to reading your complete race reports when you post them!!

Congrats Joel!  I knew you'd smoke that run.  Unfortunatey, I didn't pace myself as well and paid for it over the last 5mi or so (some dehydration and overheating as well).  Still finished better than I had originally expected first time out.

Place:  121/437 overall, 107/336 M, 23/63 M35-39
Time:  5:17:11 (36:07, 2:43:05, 1:51:36)

Great job, Rhonda!

You must feel extremely proud - don't be so hard on yourself! You've done one more Half-Ironman than I have and probably than alot other BT'ers! 

Congrats Johnny!

The key to my run was actually holding back on the bike.  If you check the results you'll see that the bike was my slowest leg (relatively) but I stuck with my pacing plan (and watched 50+ people blow by me over the first 15 miles) and hit T2 feeling great and ready to go.  The run felt very relaxed up to mile 10 or so and then the last 2 miles were a true test of determination.  That damn hill coming off the canal trail just about shut me down.

I was VERY happy with my nutrition.  I did some additional reading over the last few days and decided to cut back to 300 cal/hr on the bike and only ~100g carbs for breakfast (at 3:45am).  I ended up going through ~70oz of fluid on the bike (and was very happy when I had to pee around mile 50), and 30-40oz of water on the run.  I took one gel at T2 and carried 3 more in a flask on the run but only ended up going through about 2/3 of that in 4-5 smaller servings so it works out to about 180 cal/hr on the run.  I can't say I would change a thing overall...maybe a few extra Endurolytes here and there.

Holly $hit!  you must have out-swam the damn fish!!!

I actually paced the bike quite well I think and it was also my slowest relative.  I felt like I was standing still during most of the first 10 miles!  I had read that would happen, but still couldn't believe it as I was getting blown by.  I didn't pick it up at all until the last 5-10 miles and even then I felt very comfortable. 

Despite going too hard over the first half of the run, that was still my best relative leg.  So there were lots of others who had a harder time pacing than me.

Oh, and I was forced to walk up the hills on the way home.  It didn't slow me down too much, becuase I was just about keeping up with people ahead of me who ran up the whole way!