One week after

So it’s been a week since Ironman Louisville and I’ve been spending my time eating like a pig and sleeping! Everything and anything I want to eat has been fair game for the last week. Best to get it out of my system now before training starts again.

We got together with Paul and Cathy and the kids for a post race ice cream celebration at Dairy Queen the other night and it was great to get a chance to talk to Cathy about her great race. She set a personal best at Ironman Canada by over 20 minutes and passed 134 people on her way to an excellent marathon split. And I got a chance to talk to Paul and hear his thoughts on signing up for IMC next year. I joked with Paul that while training for an IM, he’ll have to slow down a bit when he cycling to be able to run afterwords and that now I might have a chance of keeping up with him!

I’ve unpacked everything from Louisville and most of it is sitting in a pile on the basement floor. Every time I’m down there I put a couple of things away and it is slowly getting smaller.

I’ve read a lot of race reports on various Internet sites of people that completed, or didn’t complete the race. The more I read, the more pleased, maybe satisfied is a better term, I am with my finish. Although I was initially very disappointed, I realize that under those conditions, any finish is a victory. Out of 2400 starters there were 488 that didn’t finish and over 1000 that passed through the medical tent at some point during the day. I managed to keep myself out of both of those categories at least.

Post race analysis of the results yielded the following…
Swim time of 1:21:25 placed 57th out of 115
Bike time of 5:57:20 placed 20th out of 115
Run time of 5:50:44 placed 66th out of 115
Total Time 13:23:12 placed 38th out of 115

What it all tells me is that if I could have run in the neighborhood of how I did last year, I could have finished close to the 12 hour mark.

Would have, could have, should have!! Good thing I’m going back next year!