I did not hyperventilate this year and this was a longer race than the Mountain man I did in 2007.

This week I start some swim lessons. After 1 1/2 years it is about time.

Forgot the body glide.

I really should learn and practice riding on top of my shoes.

The course was at 7000 ft elevation (approx.) and I had not trained for it. However, my goal was to keep my heart rate down and the bike leg averaged at 132 (spiked at a little over 170).

I averaged 47.7 downhill at one portion and for the most part was a little over 20 mph. However, on one of the steps I was just over 7 mph and the best hill only at 12. it shows that I still need hill focus.

ok transition.

Need to learn to run without socks on short races to eliminate the rolled sock issues I have.

The hill was a long way up.

Nothing - goal was heart rate and the goal was met! :)

short walk about to meet people at Focus with stands with fist. followed by cheering on some finishers, a shower, and then the big hello donahue two with their HIM finish (missed paulette as she is just too speedy!)


Goal was to use the day as a training day and to keep the heart rate down and work the nutrition plan. I actually had slightly better results than expected for not racing (even if I was 30 out of 30 in my age group)in that I believe that I beat my previus best time on an oly by another minute without trying to. Better to have a different goal to focus on instead of time to make little improvements.


They broke down the finish line at 7 hours (when people were still on the race course) and tore down most of transition about 6 1/2 hours into the race. They ran out of finishers medels for those doing the half - and just seemed to not care at the end of the race that it was not over for the participants yet.

My personal recommendation is to find a different race for you first 70.3. (I did the oly race but they stoped posting results on this race before me or my freinds were listed.)