So that’s my first Ironman World Championships completed. I made a short race preview video in the early hours of the morning of the race…
I’ve been out here for over 3 weeks now and my preparation has gone very well. I’ve got to say that the whole experience has been absolutely amazing, I was dubious at first as to whether or not the whole Kona experience would live up to my expectations as you hear so much about the atmosphere and obviously with it being the home of Triathlon and one of the biggest triathlons in the world it had a lot to live…
Here’s a few videos from my run this afternoon. I did it in the heat of the day, there was no hiding on Alii drive it was very hot and humid. 😉 I ran a 5 mile tempo run after a 90 minute ride with above race pace efforts. the aim was to run sub 6 minute miles which I managed Thanks to Reece for filming and being water boy on the bike! Link to the ride data on Strava Link…
Today was long run day and was started off with a nice warm up by swimming the race course in the morning. In the afternoon I was joined by @lucygoss for 15 mile long run. I think I’m definitely getting acclimated as I was able to run at a faster pace then last week for much less perceived effort. Really pleased with that. Got a good bike session planned tomorrow where I’ll aim to ride at target ironman power so I needed…