I had a great swim. The first 300 yards was crazy but then we began to spread out and it got a little calmer. I lost my goggles due to someone’s stroke within the first 75 yards. So I just turned on my side and executed the best and fastest one arm combat stroke I could until I could get my goggles back on. Sighting was near impossible on the first half until we began to really spread out.

Maybe find better land points to navigate off of. But really nothing I’m not a Kona qualifier and even though I could swim an hr or less I would be hard pressed to pull a good run.

I was so cold that I could barely get my hands to work. It took a little bit to get my arm warmers on and socks. It was quite comical to watch everyone with the same issues.

Cold is cold can't really change anything.

I stuck to my plan and stayed in my box all day. I took all the hills very easy just as my coach had instructed. The coolest thing (although I felt bad for them) was I took note of all the racers hammering the hills to see if I would see them again. I saw almost all of them on the second bike loop or passed them on the run.

Just get faster on the bike.

I came into the tent changed my socks and put my running shoes on and took a Power Bar Gell before heading out. I had to stop once to go to the bathroom before starting and give my wife a big kiss.

Nothing

I felt great off the bike and was doing everything to slow down. I wanted to do a 10min pace the first 6 then 9:30 rest the way until I hit my line. I hit the wall at 13 as expected and new I need to take more nutrition to get back in the game. So I took a gell with 2x caffeine and started to get my energy up. When I started to get my rhythm back at mile 16 I started feeling a sharp pain in the lower part of my knee which I have never had before. At mile 18 I was trying to walk run because the pain was getting bad. As of now I think I had an ITB issue which I think was brought on by running up the hill at a side angle on the first loop and when I got back to the uneven surface it just brought it on with vengeances. So at that point I realized a few things one I could finish under 12 hrs or just at 12 hrs if I could get my ITB under control then the realization I was really going to be an IRONMAN! I began to rub my ITB as hard as I could, then would run for a little while. I repeated this process until mile 22. My knee did not hurt when I walked so I said to myself who cares your goal was 1330and even if I walk the rest I’ll come in before then. So I said screw it and began to walk and motivate those who looked in worse shape than me. I linked up with this cool Canadian guy who I wish I could remember his name to see if he finished. He was on his first lap while I was on my last. He was having kidney issues but seemed to be ok for the most part. I hope he finished it was his 6th Ironman so he was ok if he was pulled off the course but would not give up until he finished or was pulled off the course. Got to love the IRONMAN Spirit.


Maybe roll on the foam roller the night before and the morning of.

Work on improving my run speed.

Got the massage which was great!


My ITB/Knee


I would do this race again in a heartbeat!!!