With my legs still recovering from Louisville there was no "racing" to be done today. I decided to run steadily but not TOO easy so that I could join Shannon and Pete with the post race festivities (beer drinking).

We started near the back since we waited in line for port-a-potties while everyone else filled the corral. We ended up starting where the 2:25 pace group was I think.

After the start we immediately started to weave through the traffic. Pete and Shannon are much faster than I so I hung with them until about mile 2 before slowing down to a wise pace (although was any pace wise 6 days after ones first ironman?

I was able to stay at around 8:00 min/mile pace on the flats and 8:30 or so pace on the uphills. There were a couple live bands along the course and the aid stations had plenty of volunteers. I took gatorade at each aid station and also water at a few of them. Conditions were great for running. I started to feel fatigued after mile 10 but the last 3 miles are flat to downhill. The last mile was the toughest. My legs were saying "why in the world are you doing this to us?". Whatever blah blah blah Ironman recovery has been extended, shut up legs!

Mile Splits (Garmin had me at 13.2 miles, 8:07 average pace)
1 7:55 /mi
2 7:36 /mi
3 8:02 /mi
4 8:00 /mi
5 8:06 /mi
6 8:33 /mi
7 8:10 /mi
8 7:46 /mi
9 7:50 /mi
10 8:08 /mi
11 8:18 /mi
12 7:56 /mi
13 8:21 /mi
0.2 7:57 /mi


Not racing and certainly don't have a race coming up so I guess nothing.

Found Pete and Shannon at the beer tent, what a surprise. You get ONE beer ticket on your race bib and yet we had at least 8 beers between us. How's that possible? Oh yeah, hang out near the beer tent looking like you're thoroughly enjoying your beer and people that don't drink or don't want a beer ask you if you want theirs, imagine that!


The activity the weekend prior, just a hunch.


Great race as usual. I think there were at least 6,200 runners between the Marathon, Half Marathon, relays and 5K.