Got into a very nice rythem for once this year. Happy with sighting, my goggles not fogging, drafting, swimming my own race focusing on form.

I thought I had a flawless transition but as my time shows it was pretty slow. Going to have to work on running faster out of water to bike, I ran slower than normal mostly because I came out of water with a lot of slower athletes in waves before me that had no urgency to get on bike, they just wanted to walk and talk to transition.

Run faster and with more urgency.

Other than losing 300 calories of perpetuum on first turn on my bike I felt great, supplemented with gatorade instead, made me ride a lot more conservative than I would have liked unsure of how my body was going to react to different nutrtion plan. Was looking for a 2:25 bike split and higher wattage but I kept up simple. Average power - 198, average cadence 96 (I'm 5'8" 148 lbs)

Not lose bottle early in ride, push power more, hit the breaks more than any other race I have ever done before in this race. Turns were tough but some downhills I had to break because a lot of people would start to pass someone when I was trying to pass them.

Felt good, put on a dry pair of socks and my shoes stayed dry.

Good run course, the dry socks and shoes felt good for awhile but around mile 2 I felt the blisters forming already, the combo of dry socks and shoes on socking wet wrinkled feet turned into some bad blisters. I toughed it out and struggles with my right calf cramping the entire race. I hung tough and finished strong even though I never got into a rythem the entire 1:38.

Got a post-race massage from augusta school of massage, ate, stretched, drank.

I met a girl who ran with zoots sockless, I picked them up to find they weight near nothing even when wet, I then picked up the sock/asic 2140 I was wearing and was shocked at how heavy they were, going to try some zoot footwear now!!


Overall good day, this was my first Ironman branded race, I tend to do smaller local races, the competition was really good to see how I can stack up against but I enjoy the smaller races more, plus they are a lot cheaper, I will look into doing the SC Half next year or the speculated rev3 race near Atlanta.