SWIM - water temps were good, water was clear, first race since late Sept so a little apprehensive about the swim, since it is my weakness. My wave was the very last of 6 waves and waves went off every 4 minutes, so aside from fighting people in MY wave, we had all the slow swimmers in the waves in front of us to go around. Started to get tired with about 500 meters to go, but kept a decent pace for me, and was out of the water in 25:50 ish. Good for 160-something place. Then the long run to T1...
BIKE - the Parlee was looking and feeling fast with the new Firecrest Zipps. Felt very good early (which was encouraging as I had dead legs all week). 1500+ft of climbing during the 30 mile ride. Tons of people to pass. Got passed by only one guy the whole way. Climbed well, descended well. Didn't quite know how to pace myself since I didn't know the whole course, but was shooting for 1:20 or under as my coach said that would be a really good time on this course. Had plenty left in my legs when the end of the bike came, time 1:22, good for 21.9+ mph over a pretty hilly course.
RUN - quick transition and on to the run. Was feeling fleet footed and was not keeping track of my mile pace so just let it go. Still passing a lot of M40-44. Ended up with 12th fastest run overall and only 1.5 minutes slower than my coach and another famous pro, time 37:43 for 10k or 6:05 pace.
Total time 2:29:30 something, good enough for 40th place overall... can't believe it wasn't higher, but there were just some serious fast dudes here, and I gave up 2-4 minutes on the swim to a lot of them, and that alone would move me up 15-20 spots. All in all happy with it, as my goal time was to break 2:30.
My coach was second overall, just 20 secs behind another pro who has won several Ironman races. Good stuff, fun race, lots of lean bodies and hard core athletes, and a few slow ones too!
Matt
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