Ironman 70.3 Lake Stevens : Official Thread (Page 5)

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.

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.

Can someone explain the results to me?  Our team has a time of 6:50:31 - but it says we finished 9th out of 18 (teams).  But according to the times shown, we finished 13th, not 9th.  Do I just need to be patient?

I'd love to see overall results too (more than the first 140 finishers) so I can see how I did individually compared to everyone else (near the bottom but it always makes me feel a little better knowing that I was faster than xx people...)

magic - 2012-07-19 9:58 AM

spie34 - 2012-07-18 11:02 PM

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.

What do you ride? Make and model, what wheels and what color jersey were you wearing? I still have all of the video I captured, could be fun to look thru it for you. I only did 10 swims in the last 12 months... so my swim time suffered. Just started riding again about 6 weeks ago, so I held back on the bike worried about blowing up. I've been doing about 6 weeks of intensive run training, none of it over 6 miles. That paid off, I kept finding my self going too easy on the run and had to keep telling my self to pick up the pace. Was able to hold my 5K pace on some of the downhills which was nice.

Look for bib 1001 on the finisher pix. That might be easier for you find me.  But a red stock specialized allez with clip on aero bars, with tribal design red top, arm warmers, and shorts.  

I looked at your first split and noticed you did 8's and then 6's for the second. I think next race I do I am going to try something like that to have a good race.  

I just bought a tri bike last night.  I look all the time but never found a good deal till this one.  Felt b16, with bontrager xxx carbon clinchers, stock wheelset, michelin race tires, aero helmet, look pedals, aero bar water bottle, bike pump etc.  Look at trying to get all that equipment new and separate was about $4k. Paid 1550. So will see how that goes for me in my next half I do.

Thanks for the Video.  You followed me from the bike mount to the last turn onto the main road.  Cool to see.