Ironman 70.3 Lake Stevens : Official Thread (Page 4)

Hey everyone!!

  My FIRST 70.3 distance, and I am nervous but super excited for it!!!  Looks like I will be sporting #763 on Sunday!!  Good luck to everyone, hope you all have a GREAT race!!

Corey

You will do great.  This will actually be my 2nd attempt at 70.3 with Boise 70.3 turning into something like 29.2 this year because of bad weather.  I actually learned alot in that race and a lot from my training since then.  One thing to do is race your race not someone else's race. Pace yourself and stick to your plan that you have done in training. Best of luck.

Good luck everyone!   ....Destroy it!!

I will be on the sidelines cheering and taking pics!   If you see me smile! :-)

You will do great.  This will actually be my 2nd attempt at 70.3 with Boise 70.3 turning into something like 29.2 this year because of bad weather.  I actually learned alot in that race and a lot from my training since then.  One thing to do is race your race not someone else's race. Pace yourself and stick to your plan that you have done in training. Best of luck.

Like wise, see you at the finish!!

Good luck to all of you at Lake Stevens this weekend...you'll be running right by my street along 36th street at the top end of the run loop as you head back towards Grade Rd.  I'm volunteering at bike checkin on Saturday and finish chute on Sunday afternoon, so looking forward to seeing you all finish strong!  Hopefully, I will be racing it next year with you if all goes to plan.

James

Got here yesterday evening and registered right before they closed at 7pm. Gonna check-in the bike and drive the bike course this afternoon. 

Can't believe how the weather changed as we got within a few miles of Lake Stevens. Hope these thunderstorms don't mess things up Sunday a.m.

Best wishes everybody, have a great race!!!

-Ron

we checked in yesterday, my biker dropped his bike off - all that's left is good dinner and as much sleep as possible with a sick 1 year old...

See you all in the morning!!

I'm not sure how to read the results (finding the relay teams listed together doesn't seem to be available yet....) but we all finished better than we anticipated (47:02, 3:36, 2:24) so we're happy!!  It was a great day for a race - not too hot, not too cold.  Water was actually much warmer than I expected - I wasn't last out of the water but nearly so (I woke up with a horrible cold this morning, throat on fire - soldiered through, hard to breath makes swimming a little harder!)

Our team is already planning on Black Diamond hopefully in September!! 

What a cr@ptacular day of racing for me. Rear shifter busted at about mile 25 leaving me with only my 28 and the FD to select gears from. That combo results in low (great for hills) and too low, crappy for most else. I wound up spending nearly an hour more on the course than I expected as I would spin out almost immediately in the big ring, so did most of my riding as coasting.

Run was OK, kind of buggered up my nutrition in the middle, but once I corrected it I managed to get back a little, still about 8 minutes off of where I wanted to be.

Oh well, looks like Black Diamond should hopefully be my redemption race (with new bar end shifters, the Vision Techs are a POS. 3rd time they have busted in less than a year). RAMROD is in 1.5 weeks, so hopefully the mechanical gremlins will stay away for that one.

I was 5:11:42. I guess not too bad considering it is my first real half and only 3rd tri ever.  solid swim for me. 10 min better than boise at 34 and change. t1 good transition < 2 minute.  Bike 2:52 and change. T2 < 2 minutes. Run 1:40. Fell apart about mile 8 and slowed down quite a bit. Started having a little bit of IT band issues going on. But overall I felt great and met my goal of at least 5:15.  I guess that I thought I was a solid runner but looks like I need to train more for that now.

Being that my age group started last minus relay, it was a huge psychological factor climbing the hills and still passing a lot of people on the course.  I didn't know how I did on the swim until after I finished as I didn't want to know coming out of the water. 

I will say that i would do the race again as I enjoyed the bike and swim quite a bit. I did feel the run to very boring however. Nothing to look at at all and it seems they could make that pretty exciting or at scenic there.

Hey Magic,

  Just watched ur video of the race (pretty sweet)!!  And by the way, one of those butts you were trying to squeeze by out of T1 was me (guy in the yellow/white/grey trisuit)!!  Pretty funny to see myself on there!!  Even saw a quick view of my wife as you were coming into T2!!  Hope you had a good race?!  I did for my first 70.3!!!

Take care!

Corey

Not the greatest race for me, calf cramps on the swim messed things up. But, it was my first HIM and I had a great time anyway - it was valuable experience to prepare for IMCDA next year. 

Race Report

magic - 2012-07-16 7:34 PM

corey.spencer - 2012-07-16 7:12 PM

Hey Magic,

  Just watched ur video of the race (pretty sweet)!!  And by the way, one of those butts you were trying to squeeze by out of T1 was me (guy in the yellow/white/grey trisuit)!!  Pretty funny to see myself on there!!  Even saw a quick view of my wife as you were coming into T2!!  Hope you had a good race?!  I did for my first 70.3!!!

Take care!

Corey

Butt cameo! On my way to rack the bike, as I come around the sharp corner in T2 there is a sweet Felt all by its self on the rack, that's a friend's of mine and she was digging on the bike cameo. Sure hope no BT'ers where the flappy jacket or sketchy guys...

I was just ahead of you in the race. Not sure where you caught me on the bike and passed me but I was about a minute faster out to the bike than you but you were 4 minutes faster on the bike than I was.  I kept looking to see if I was in the video or not but didn't see myself. I did see the guy with the yellow flapping jacket and was thinking wtf.  But hey if you haven't raced in bad weather before nor done that distance (which I hadn't either) than I guess you don't know for sure.  

I did see you on the run however and you were hauling . Good job. 

I thought overall the bike course was a whole lot of fun even though I didn't think I even really trained for hills but I guess i did because I climbed the hills fairly well or so I thought.