Cancelled

One bike bottle with water and RedBull. I only drank half of it as it was a cool/wet day. Left hammy started cramping a little coming back into the park and I had visions of last year's 70.3 race where I had to stop and massage my legs every few minutes for cramping. Luckily it worked itself out and I got back into transition without incident. I saw quite a few people on the course who had flatted. I figured because of debris washed onto the road surface from the storm.

I was hoping for a 20 mph average and ended up at 19.7, pretty close. I sometimes wish I had a power meter on my bike, but I think I got pretty close to my goal, and am in tune with my body using my RPE.

Ran past my designated transition spot and lost a couple of seconds. Everything soaked made it a little bit harder to get into running shoes, but everybody's in the same boat so to speak.

Pay better attention to transition numbers.

I wasn't too worried about running up the hill as I'm fairly adept at running hills. I just didn't want to red line my heart rate too much going up. I think I was more worried about how my knees would feel coming back down, but no problems there. The sun had come out during the run and it started to get muggy and warm. The last 2 miles of the run I ran with a guy at least 10-15 years younger than me. I tried to lose him a couple of times, but he held on tight. I enjoyed the battle and we came down the hill to the finish neck and neck. I tried to hold him off, but in the end he took me by a second or two. He came over to me and thanked me for the battle and a good run. We shook hands and I thanked him too, it was fun. I wish I could remember his bib number.

I might have pushed it a little harder on the first 5K as I never really felt taxed. The engine felt great, but the legs were a bit weak.

Drank a bottle of water and walked over to see my kids and wait on my wife and other friends to finish. There was pizza at the finish, but for the first time ever, I passed on post race food. The GenUcan really works. I've never had a problem with it and it gives my plenty of energy for an olympic distance race. It was a good hour to hour and a half before I got back to my campsite and fixed a roast beef sandwich for lunch, had some yummy watermelon and coconut water.


It would have been nice to have gotten more rest the night before. I don't really know how much that affected my performance.
My goal for this race was to qualify for the 5150 championship which I did. I was secretly hoping for a top 5 finish to get the free entry, but I'm pleased with 9th.


Well run race by a very experience RD. Not a lot of frills, cheap T-shirts and a cheap short bike bottle in packet. I would have rather had one nice shirt and no bike bottle. Pizza only at the end of the race, could have offered a little more choices.
The right call was made as to cancelling the swim and starting the race when we did.