First Ironman (Yes, full 140.6) Complete!

[BagelConsultant]

I did the (apparently rather controversial) Ironman US Championship race in NY last Saturday. Amazing experience, I'm still processing it all. I trained with Team in Training as part of their first Iron Team in the NY area (maybe ever, not sure). This was my first Ironman and I made it through honestly much faster than I was expecting:

Swim: 53:26
Bike: 6:56:55
Run: 5:00:10
Overall: 13:16:16

Couple of pics:











Now all I want to do is get faster

[choochoo]

congrats!

[GinsterGTI]

Awesome! That is indeed a great accomplishment. The look on your face at the end says it all!

[BagelConsultant]

Thanks! I celebrated as hard as I could down that last 100 yards

[GTaye]

Big Props for finishing a full Ironman!

What races had you completed prior while you were training up?

[A1an]

Congrats...that is one hell of an accomplishment! Dig the Redline.

[synthsis]

HUGE CONGRATS man! I actually have a Tri thread over in the Health&Fitness forum. Post this over there too if you haven't already (I haven't looked yet).

[BagelConsultant]

Thanks everyone!

This year the only race I did other than the Ironman was the Rev3 70.3 in CT back in June. Prior races include:

2010 NJ Marathon and NYC Tri
2010 Green Lakes 50K
2011 NJ Marathon
2011 Pocono Ironman 70.3
2010 and 2011 Ragnar Relay NY

and a few more small ones in there.

Basically I trained with TNT since January, we had a group of 30 triathletes of varying experience and 3 USAT coaches who did a great job taking us from zero to hero

[J-Tim]

Major props!

[rferic18]

What was your take on the logistics of the race?? bussing to T1 and the boat ride etc

[BagelConsultant]

The logistics were complex but well run, amazingly well done for a first-year event. I live in Manhattan so I woke up at 2AM to take a 3AM bus to a 430AM ferry to get to transition

The start was pretty amazing - from the ferry I was on (we were ferried to the start barge 2.4mi north of swim exit/transition) I got to see the pros start the swim. Overall I liked the race and hope it continues, especially if they can set up the run course to have a more epic finish location, Times Square for example would be AMAZING as a spot to have the finish chute...

[rferic18]

Well it seems they have suspended reg. for next year. I would like to see it happen again. I was planning on traveling out next year and volunteering with my buddy out there!

[Rallyfreak202]

Congrats! I'm going to do my first Half Iron Man in a year or two. Too busy racing bikes and running is the suck.