Harvest Moon Half Ironman - Race Report

Well this is the first time I have ever raced a course again.  This was also my PR course, but battling a sinus infection for 2 weeks prior wasn't the best warmup.  This race recap is also way behind.  I am a burned out triathlete right now.  Fat and out of shape.  The purposeuarter of this race was to show my fitness with little work on my own, didnt happen.  Um yeah so on to shitsville.

I felt flat when I woke up but at least I found Scott at the starting line.  That didn't help, he wanted to go home, but if he goes home the field breathes, me nobody notices.  So I smiled at giving him inspiration (funny sport where i the high school quarterback gives brett favre inspiration) and told him go have at it (he finished 2nd in his age group).  He is one tough dude!

So Swimming felt good at 1:40 I thought I went faster.  People say the course was long.  I know we got it back the run,  So out on the bike they ran out of water and I got this apology (though given my splits, I don't think it was only 70 people with no water)


Hi Jason, I take full responsibility for running out of water at the aid station and feel terrible. I can't apologize enough to you and the 70 or so athletes in the same situation. There's no excuse at all and I can't apologize enough. I've been racing half Ironman's since 96' back in New England and can't imagine what it would be like out there to run out of liquids, for that I apologize. Our first year at Harvest Moon (2009) it was cold and we had 30% water bottles left over. When it was hot this year we upped last year's totals by 25%, but as you know it wasn't close to what we needed out there. For 2011, regardless of the weather, I PROMISE we'll have plenty of water out there with tons of extras. There's a list of tweaks we want to make for 2011, then there's a list that has "WATER" written on it in bright colors and big letters. I truly hope you had a good experience out there, despite the water issue, and hope to see you in 2011 at one of our events. If so please be sure to introduce yourself! 

Thank you,

Lance

Anyway, these guys work hard to deliver affordable races and I quit whining after my bike.  Yes I puked twice on the run.  I am out of shape and a fatty (Barbanzo loves to call us fatties)  But whatever I wanted to quit the whole race and I gutted out 1:50 on the run, not bad for a fatty.  5:46 Total time, which is my worst half IM in a while.  I ended up spending the next 2 weeks on antibiotics for a  major sinus infection.  Not fun times!


Happy Training!