{"id":742,"date":"2013-04-28T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2014-08-12T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:30:07","slug":"galveston-new-orleans-70-3-ironman-race-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/galveston-new-orleans-70-3-ironman-race-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Galveston &#038; New Orleans 70.3 Ironman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived Friday into Huston, Texas to then be picked up by <a href=\"http:\/\/mitchrobins.com\">Mitch Robins<\/a> and his home-stay family The lovely Gibbons. I firstly wanted to thank them for making me feel so at home and looking after us Aussie boys over the weekend at your beautiful property.<\/p>\n<p>So game day went like this. I had a reasonable swim, coming out in the middle of the second pack. I then went onto ride the fastest bike split of the day with a 2:07:58 helping me ride myself into 2nd position. Many thanks to Ivan From Retul for getting me dialled back onto my stead (Giant Trinity). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-copy.jpg\" alt=\"photo copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-754\" \/><\/a>Earlier during the week Andrew from Newton gave me the opportunity to test the a prototype of a newton shoe that they gave to the Olympic runners to wear. I found the shoe to be very light weight and fast but also stable enough for me to have the confidence to go hard. I went on to post the second fastest run time being 1:14:24. Overall I had to settle for 2nd place, not a bad result considering I only got to the states 2 weeks earlier.  <\/p>\n<p>Following Galveston 70.3 Ironman I had two weeks to prepare for New Orleans 70.3 Ironman. So the weather in Boulder hasn&#8217;t been ideal for training due to the sever cold and constant snow, I also had a niggle in my hip that was not 100% come race morning.<br \/>\nThe swim went to my usual swim standard of around front of the second pack, I was happy where I was positioned thus far in the race. Onto the bike I wasn&#8217;t feeling the way I did in Texas, my hip was pinching me but still managed to do a 2:08 putting me in 4th position off the bike. My run was damaged due to my hip, I didn&#8217;t have my usual spring in my step, in turn causing me to fade to 8th position. Lets just say I was happy to see the finish line! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-copy-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"photo copy 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-753\" \/><\/a>Now I&#8217;m back in Boulder and I&#8217;m getting some much needed treatment done on my hip. I will be here up until I my next race back in Australia at Busselton 70.3 Ironman. <\/p>\n<p>I also wanna give a big shout out to my boy <a href=\"http:\/\/mitchrobins.com\">Mitch Robins<\/a> for his come back after a year of racing getting 6th and 5th and posting a Smokin 1.12 at Nola.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-752\" \/><\/a>Big thanks again to all my wonderful sponsors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scody.com.au\">Scody<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giant-bicycles.com\/en-au\/\">Giant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtonrunning.com\">Newton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daikin.com.au\">Daikin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/endura.com.au\">Endura<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ats-altitude.com\">Altitude Training Systems<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shimano.com.au\">Shimano<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueseventy.com\">Blue Seventy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakley.com\">Oakley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garmin.com\/au\/\">Garmin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.continental-tyres.com.au\/\">Continental Tyres<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetblackproducts.com\">Jet Black Cycling<\/a> and of cause my Coach Grant Giles from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeromaxteam.com\">Team Aeromax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to getting back to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Missing my girls!<\/p>\n<p>See you all in Busso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}