Gulf Coast Triathlon : Official Thread (Page 6)

I was wondering the same thing.  I read yesterday that the oil was no where near PCB and they weren't sure if it would even make it there.

Have fun out there today everyone!

Yes we did the swim and it was completly BRUTAL.  Like the second loop IMFL 06....super hard.  Oil was not a factor

I commented a few weeks ago:  "If it's wetsuit-legal and if I can avoid falling apart in the last hour of the run, I'm hoping to beat my 2003 time, which would make it my fastest half-iron since my first one in 1991, also at Gulf Coast, when I was a young lad of 42."  As it turned out, it was wetsuit-legal, but I also fell apart near the end of the run.  So I narrowly missed my stretch goal, finishing just 29 seconds slower than in 2003.  I did, however, manage to break six hours (my primary goal), and I also averaged faster on the bike than in any race of any distance since that same 1991 race.  Oh, and I managed to bring home hardware, for the first time in this race.  All things considered, I'm pleased.

The water was very choppy, but somehow I seemed to stay on course for a change.  There was a strong west wind on the bike, but I handled it intelligently with the aid of my Powertap.  The only real problem was that I had nothing left in the last 4-5 miles of the run.  I still have probably not recovered all the run endurance I had prior to an extended period of injury that I got past just nine months ago.  If I could only have postponed that slowdown long enough to gain me another thirty seconds....