Cardinal 70.3 Summary

The bike course takes primarily on the IM Louisville course, and that is the reason I choose the race. 

The swim was a 2 loop course.  Half of each loop was against the current, so my overall swim time was slower than I expected, but I did well in comparison to others in my age group. 

Once I got on the bike the race went downhill.  I flatted less than a mile into the bike course hitting a pot hole.  I should have gone back to transition and picked up an extra tube, but that did not dawn on me for some reason.  Until mile 45 the bike went well although my neck did hurt a lot.  I will need to address that with a bike fit change.  I flatted again at mile 45 without an extra tube.  I had to sit on the side of the road until some nice lady gave me an extra tube.  With the flats my bike time was horrible.  It was one of the worst in my age group.

The run was a 2 loop very hilly course.  This is where the race went from bad to worse.  The hills were no joke and forced me to walk at least half of the 13.1.  I took me over 3 hours to finish the run which was by far the worse run time in my age group and put me dead last in my age group by over 20 minutes.  My final time was 7:23 which is just downright embarrassing. 

I continue to reflect on why my run went so bad.  One thing is for sure that I will need to change my training regiment.  I will either drop CFE or move to a heavy run biased CFE programming.  For now I am on vacation this week, which I will enjoy and only run a few times.