Ironman Lanzarote

Leading up to the race, I had to rest for a cold when I should have been doing my last bit of vital training! Also getting caught up with winning and training for shorter distance, I had neglected my long distance training!!

Swim

7am start, 1300 people running into the water!

I got bashed about alot in the first 900m, but I kept moving!

First lap in 31 minutes, I was happy with this since I got knocked about alot!

the second lap I didn't feel tired but I decided to sit on peoples feet and draft to conserve my energy!

Swim time 1:03

T1

I ran up into transition, grabbed my bag, my wetsuit already off! helmet on and ran with my cycle shoes to my bike!

5 minutes

Bike

With my ergomo power meter, I was constantly watching my watts. It was reading 300 and over all the time with people passing me! In my traing rides if I went over 260watts average I would blow by mile 80!

But I couldn't keep my wattage down, but I felt really good so I thought I'd see how I get on at this pace!

The cycle around the island was great, much better views than the normal farms and trees!

Cycling up the volcanoes was amazing, at one point we was actually in the clouds!

And the descents were scary!!

Time 6:45

Run

So 6:45 was a bit slow but I felt great I didn't hit the wall at all!!!

Well until after 10k on the run!

I ran a pace of 4:30 minutes per kilometre, but after 50 minutes it was run for a while then walk until someone pats me on the back to continue running!!

I don't remeber much more than that, it was all to traumatising!!

Run time 4:10

Ironman Lanzarote 12:09

Ashdon 10.5K-1st

Warming up for the race, I did not feel up for this!

I had gut ache and felt tired! I was hoping that all that will go away soon as I got going.



The gun went of, and more or less straight away it was myself and two others bunched up running in the lead, at times side by side taking up the whole road!



5K past before I knew it, and it was still myself and two others so close together, not letting anyone of us get away! 17 minutes was the split for the first 5K.



The whole race I was thinking negative. All that was going through my head was, these two do this all the time and are gunna leave me behind with a kilometer to go!

But then at around the 6K mark, one of the guys started to fall back slowly!!

This gave me a big boost. Then, to my surprise, the other guy I was running with started to back off a bit!



I couldn't believe it! I was in the lead on my own. I had dropped the other two!!

With my confidence soaring, I felt amazing and pushed slightley. Not too hard because with still about 2K's to go!



Running up the finish shoot, a big hill. I came first!! thats to wins in a row!



the second 5.5K split was 21minutes, but not because we slowed. But because it was very hilly!