I had a good swim. I just tried to stay relaxed the first 750m and get into a good groove. Half way through the swim I picked up my pace and kept it up until the finish. Caught quite a few of the guys in the wave in front of me. My time was actually slower than a couple of years ago but my rank was a lot higher. Maybe the course was a little long or something.

Not much.

Tried to take it easy and get my heart rate under control before the bike.

Seemed like there was a headwind for most of this ride. It got really frustrating rounding every bend and still having a headwind. Not sure what happened to the water bottle handouts but I really needed the one at mile 32 and it wasn't there. Luckily, they had made it out to the water bottle location at mile 44 and I was able to get a bottle then. This was my first race using Infinit. I mixed 2 bottles to last 1.5 hours each. I was really pleased at how well this worked.

Again tried to take my time and get my heartrate under control before the run.

Although this was my fastest run of the 3 him's I have done I still need lots of improvement. I ran the first couple of miles around 9min/mile but then fell apart. I was trying to run from aid station to aid station. This lasted about 4 miles then I seemed to lose some desire to keep up the pace. This is also about the time I started to have a really dry mouth which didn't help. Around the 9 mile mark I started calculating what it would take to break 6 hours which was my goal going into the race. So from 9 miles in I tried to pick up the pace again. Looks like I picked it up just enough to break the 6 hour mark by 30 seconds.

I really didn't do any long brick workouts before this race. Maybe I need to do some in order to keep up the run pace.

It took me about an hour to start to feel better while slowly drinking a powerade. After that I began to feel a lot better.


The heat and wind.


I like the venue and really enjoy this race.