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Hi everyone.  Great race for me as well.   The course was long by my Garmin (13.25) so if I adjust for the extra distance I hit my time goal of 2:15 exactly!!!!    Best of all I am so excited about my pace.  I held around a 10:35 pace for the first 10 miles then dropped my overall average to a 10:25 in the the last 5K.  I negative split that puppy!!   I think I'm finally over the hump on my running and have reached the point where I want to see how fast I can run.  Before it was always just a test to see if I could do the distances.  This is really cool.   

Great job everyone else!  Wonderful weekend performances. 

GREAT JOB EVERYONE... Inpsiring and awesome to follow up on....

Way to go....

GREAT JOB, ALL!!!  Tuffli,  I'm in awe of your bike split.  Sam - way to rock the sub 4 with a bad tummy.  That's a horrid thing to run with.  Nice Tracy - negative split?!?  1:54, John - great job.....how did dw do?

Waiting to hear from everyone else!!!

Wow, Trevor.....did your FB get hacked?!? 

and John's, too?!?

Hey congrats everyone. Way to break 4hrs there Sammy!

Tracy and John - way to tough through those fast 1/2.

I'm waiting to hear about the Singapore 70.3........

Linda - FB? I never go in, but i saw a crazy link today and hit it...maybe thats it?

Hey I found Bryces race....

9    72 Bryce Hiigel             43 Lamar                CO 5:40:09   10   36:13    3:30 2:57:48    9 2:02:40

Well done!!!

Awesome job to all the racers this weekend!!!

First HIM was a great experience!! Learned a lot about my body, what it can handle & not handle, and pacing!!! more details to come..

Great job, Bryce, fighting those voices telling us to stop is a huge achievement, especially when the body is in perfect agreement with those voices!  Nice job on all three disciplines, your training really paid off!  Great mental toughness. 

Probably it...you, John & Doug...

race report

I love the picture Tuffli, so cute! Congrats on a great race!

Linda

Wow, our racers rock!  I can't believe all the great finishes this weekend.

I hope you guys rub off on me for when my race season starts!

Tuffli:  really cute pic and great race report.  I will be curious to hear what others have to say about your nutrition since I want to do an HIM in Sept.   It sounds like you took in quite a bit on the bike, but it wasn't clear what you were doing on the run until some time after you cramped.   Cramping is still a mystery for the scientists.  There is no solid evidence yet to say that it is caused by lack of electrolytes or lack of a certain mineral like potassium.   

Awesome job to hang in there through that run.  A couple of Olys I did last summer were high temp/humidity (32 C and 70% humidity), but I guess Singapore weather was even tougher.  

awesome pic tuffli!!

my official time is in.   1:54:20.  8:52 pace for the first 8 miles then dropped down to an 8:30 pace for the remainder.  i exceeded my goals yesterday and am happy.  had a lot more in the tank but big picture!

Great job racing this weekend everyone, sounds like PR's all around.

And Doug your ST article is getting some good discussion going.

Yeah, I just found out. I did not know they were publishing it yesterday and did not see the thread until an hour ago. So I have posted to the thread discussion. Some people really do not like the WTC. I do not quite understand that.

Doug

Tuffli, do not post this on ST. You will just get hammer for her not wearing the right size top and the excess aerodynamic drag it creates!

AGREE!  She is such a cutie!  And GREAT RACE!

Last summer, I had some issues with leg cramping on my first few brick runs and had to really be conscious of driniking enough water on the bike.  Especially on hotter days.  It wasn't clear from your rr whether you were following your gatorade or bars/etc with water?  I use infinit and water, usually drink a gulp of sport drink and then a gulp or two of water. 

If you were doing what you normally did (nutritionally) in training, though, then it very well could have been your amazingly strong effort on the bike took a bit out of you for the run.