Ironman 70.3 California : Official Thread (Page 15)

Chris - Way to tear it up today.  Nice 20 minute improvement over last year's time.  I'm planning on being back next year, but don't think I'll be anywhere near your speed.

How was the weather this year? Sounded like the winds were good and not as cold as last year.

Once again, congrats on a great race!

  Chris R.

It was great meeting you on the bike course Chris!  I met my goals as well.  Super awesome day!  I don't feel as trashed up like I did post Orangeman last September, yay!!! =D

I'll try not to be offended by that remark, Chris, because I know you more from outside of BT, but umm twice on the run. 

The weather was fantastic!!!   I beat my last time here by over 10 mins.  I still really need to work on my run though.  Oh well.  I had a great race and In & Out after.  Now I'm supposed to go dye eggs with the nephews (ages 3, 5, 7)  not sure if that is going to happen. 

That really wasn't smack talk, you looked like you needed a boost!    But looking at your times, you really didn't I guess. 

And, Cheryl was about 30 seconds in front of you on her first lap (like me) when I was "smack talking" you!  I think you passed her soon after. 

I felt great about my swim, bike, and first lap of the run.  That second lap however.... ummm, welllll.  Next Year! 

Andy Potts won in 3:49:50...

Heather Jackson did it in 4:13:48

So guys if you did it in less than 7:39:40

and Gals if you did it in less than 8:27:36

Then you can join my club, I call it Half-Fast Triathletes!

I finished in 7:11:3 This course was WAY WAY  harder then Augusta (I did Augusta in Sep) 

Nice work everyone! I finished my RR. Also, Happy Easter!

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Hi,

My name is Dale.

I'm a photographer from Oceanside. I was taking photos of the run at the 3 mile mark.

I took photos of your 2 laps, so you need to look for yourself more then once. 

I stopped taking photos at 1:30pm, 

 If you would like to check them out go to our website 1DKPIX.COM  or  http://drhphotos.photostockplus.com

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A bunch of BT people said hi to me.... I tried to say something coherent back... and mostly failed...

I'm  bit hard of hearing and  was not wearing my hearing aids so remembering ID's heard once 

was beyond what I could do under the conditions....

In any case it was always a pick up to hear from other BTers.

I put the bike number on my seat post, one side left adhesive all over the post, the other side tore off a big chunk of the post "coating" along with some of the "cervelo" sticker.  Anybody else have this?  Is this because of the adhesive of the sticker or the weakening of the coating over time?  Kind of pisses me off, glad I didn't put it anywhere else on the bike.

Same kind of race for me as usual, good swim and bike, bad run, right knee bothered me a lot.  Beat last year's time by 5 minutes, that's a positive I guess.

You are NOT a major castastrophe, You are an 1/2 Ironman finisher.  BE PROUD!  It is not an easy task. During this race, I too was hurting and wanted to quit but I didnt and finished.  You live and learn and next year, you will do a helluva lot better.  Congrats on your finish.