Canberra Ironman 70.3

Well I finally made it to the Canberra Ironman 70.3. Nearly a year of training and preparation culminated in Sundays race.

I just wanted to share a few things. First my travels over there. This was the first time I had traveled with my bike on an airline. I've included a few picks below to show you how I did it as I didn't have a proper bike bag (although I think it is on the cards now). I was pretty paranoid about this part of the travel, hence the bike being totally encased in padding.

One note I used a part from Torpeado & to retain and secure the front fork.

Happy to say the bike made it there and back in one piece. Pics of the steed in race dress below.

The weather on the day was varied. Started out ok. Started raining half way through the 1.9Km swim and continued to rain for most of first lap of the 90Km ride (3 laps of 30Km).

The rain made life tough on the bike as it was already a pretty demanding course (as far as Triathlon goes). Quite undulating with a few annoying short climbs. Have posted profile here: http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/31059368

Bike splits looked like this:

BIKE SPLIT 1: 30 km	30 km (49:38)	36.27 km/h
BIKE SPLIT 2: 60 km	30 km (51:13)	35.14 km/h
BIKE SPLIT 3: 90 km	30 km (51:20)	35.06 km/h
TOTAL BIKE	90 km (2:32:11)	35.48 km/h

Lots and lots of people with bike probs on the day. Fortunately I didn't have any. Final result are:

BIB	AGE	STATE/COUNTRY	PROFESSION
433	38	Mile End South Australia Australia	engineer

SWIM	BIKE	RUN	OVERALL	RANK	DIV.POS.
35:05	2:32:11	1:36:33	4:48:10	96	21

LEG	DISTANCE	PACE	RANK	DIV.POS.
TOTAL SWIM	1.9 km (35:05)	1:50/100m	320	61

BIKE SPLIT 1: 30 km	30 km (49:38)	36.27 km/h
BIKE SPLIT 2: 60 km	30 km (51:13)	35.14 km/h
BIKE SPLIT 3: 90 km	30 km (51:20)	35.06 km/h
TOTAL BIKE	90 km (2:32:11)	35.48 km/h	131	27

RUN SPLIT 1: 10.5 km	10.5 km (47:17)	4:30/km
RUN SPLIT 2: 21.1 km	10.6 km (49:16)	4:38/km
TOTAL RUN	21.1 km (1:36:33)	4:34/km	96	21

TRANSITION				TIME
T1: SWIM-TO-BIKE				2:09
T2: BIKE-TO-RUN				2:12

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Comment by Justin V on December 13, 2011 at 11:02: Well done. It seems that you got stronger and past more people as the day went on.

PS Good to see a C'Dale being taken good care of!

Comment by Gus K on December 13, 2011 at 13:13: Great job. You must be happy after all your training. Setting your sights on next year?

Comment by Darren Bosanko on December 13, 2011 at 13:20: Thanks! Have already signed up for the Challenge Cairns long course event (2km swim, 80km ride and 20km run).

That is at the beginning of June.

Comment by Brett G-R on December 14, 2011 at 8:52: Well Done

Mate of mine just finished the ironman in wa, just under 14 hours in total

i think it was a 3.2km run, 180 km ride & a 42km run

Comment by Dahondude on December 14, 2011 at 14:05: Blimey 90 km at 35 km/h followed by a 21km run. Excellent effort! I'd be having a nanna nap after the ride :-)

Comment by Darren Bosanko on December 14, 2011 at 14:52: Definitely did have a good sleep after the whole day. Not that sore, but a full body drain of available Glycogen. They had ice cream and fruit salad as the post race feed. Best tasting ice cream and fruit salad I've ever tasted.

Didn't quite top the donuts we had at the recent Victor Harbor Tri!

Canberra Ironman 70.3

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