good visibility. little contact throughout. nice and mellow swim.

purposely took it easy since my swim training was lacking somewhat and didn't want to burn my matches too early.

long run from bike position, ran in bare feet, then put on shoes at the start line.

felt solid on the bike. overcast skies kept the winds and heat down. Some rain getting into hill climb to Hawi, which was fine.

they use a "time arrived" method of racking bikes, which seems to work pretty well.

tough course and really steamy hot.
you felt the heat coming up through the moist grass in the golf course sections.
Also being a 2 lap course this year, it was 2 trips to "road to nowhere" which made it harder IMO.

the best strategy I had was to keep cool with ice in my hat.

walk around and eat, hydrate


as usual, WTC puts on a great race. my 7th time doing this 70.3 and it is always a good time and a test of my endurance and training.

Not my best performance, but I think there were some positives. This race proves that using my indoor virtual trainer can prepare me well for the bike. And my run wasn't speedy but I enjoyed having a good set of feet without injury this year.