Ironman 70.3 California : Official Thread (Page 19)

Congrats Doug...was looking for you out there but couldn't find you.  I had a rough day out there...bad swim, a bike mechanic issue and tried to compensate for the lost time (15-20 mins) on the bike by cranking it a bit, which caused me to blow up on the run.   After the race, I hopped into a plane to Boston to visit my buddies.  Bad idea to sit for 6 hours after swimming biking and running for that same amount of time.  Great job everyone.  I'm doing IMAZ this year, so hopefully I'll see some of you guys out there.   Going to fill out an rr soon.  =)  

Thanks Doug, if you can tell me how to ride and run, I'll tell you how to swim    CONGRATS on the worlds slot.  I am always impressed at people that set qualifying goals and then go out and do it.   I looked for you out there, but you were too fast.  I also looksed at all the odwalla jerseys but none were Mike.

David - maybe some day we'll meet at a race instead of being cyberbuddies 

Did hook up with Hans, Paul and Tim on the run at various points

I am also glad that others had the same impression of the wind on the southbound section.  I don't mind wind.  I don't mind hills.  But both together are tough on this clyde.  The only other time I did this race it was minimal wind, even on Vandegrift.  There was a time or two on the bike where I seriously thought all I'd be able to do was limp in on the bike and bag the day entirely.

well i finished. after suffering a blown lcl and rehabbing for a "training" i have to be happy with just finishing. next year though, hopefully will be a much different story!

congrats to all the other finishers.

Congrats to all who did well and finished on this course. Challenging day, and saw a few of you. Great job. As for myself, I died really early, and just died. Body went to crap, guess extrem lack of training really showed up. Didn't have any baseline to hold me up this year. Ouch!!

This was my worst time in over half a decade.

Be back again to avenge this, as long as my wife isn't pregnant again. Challenging to mnage one kid and train, but two and train!! Someone needs to educated on how they do it. Theirs a new thread to have on BT! Some support / training group for new dad's! Cheers!!

I survived & managed to hit my third tier goal of breaking 6 hours. The headwind killed me! I managed to stay "running" - but just barely. A very cool course & I can't wait to do it again. Congratulations to everyone!

Rebecca

AWESOME!! I was hoping you would get a slot in Vegas. Wishing you the best out there, hopefully without the free 'warpaint' from the dropped chain. Pretty impressive, chain drop AND still get a slot Now THATS racing at its finest!!

so who is in for the next one?

i know i am!