Ironman 70.3 Puerto Rico - Katie's Race Report
Warning: This is rather lengthy. If you'd prefer to just look at pictures and race times/results, just keep scrolling. SWIM The sun wasn’t quite up yet when we arrived at the swim start at 6:35. I asked the volunteer holding my AG swim wave sign if we could do a practice swim. Nope. Alright – so much for that. The beginning of the race would be my warm up! After some grappling, Zach helped me decide that I should wear my tinted goggles. I handed him all my stuff that needed to go in my morning clothes bag, we kissed and said, “See you at the finish!” The pro men started at 6:50, and pro women at 6:55. I was in the first AG swim wave. After the pro women took off, we were corralled down to the water. I waded in, dolphin dived, and took a couple freestyle strokes out to the first buoy. That was all the swimming I got in. The water felt great. I think it actually may have been warmer than when I did my practice swim the day before. While setting up transition earlier in ...