Race Coverage

"High Fives on the Way"....

Friday, 04 September 2015 06:10

UPDATE: Elite late registrants rock socks at St. Croix Valley in steamy Hudson. RESULTS - Fox collects 10th race of the season at Hopkins Royal Tri II. PP starts last, finishes 1st...RESULTS

By Josh Duda (road2recovered.blogspot.com)

SUPERIOR MAN RACE REPORT - The intent of this race was to be my “A Race” of the season. This was going to be my big show!  Going into this race, I felt like I was right where I needed to be! 70.3 PR here we come! ...

I have HUGE compliments to the Superiorman organizers!  This was one of the most well run events I have done.  I paid $35 more for the VIP Package last January for which I received parking passes for the race ($10 value), my race numbers were mailed to me a week ahead of time, express checking at the venue, and a whole bunch of benefits I fortunately didn’t use (free bib transfer, free “no questions asked”  race deferral to 2016).

We drove to Duluth on Saturday.  Check in had to be complete by 6pm when transition closed.  I had most of my transition area set up before I left that afternoon. After we got checked into our hotel, I met up with Katie to head over to the pre race meeting.  After the meeting, I met back up with my family for dinner, then an early bed time!

 Race morning started early for me!  Just after midnight I was evacuating my supper from my system!!!  I awoke from a solid sleep and had to puke immediately!  Not what I wanted/needed on race day, especially a long race where nutrition is key!  After clearing out the system, I pounded a protein shake to try to get some liquid calories back into the body.  Back to bed I went!

I awoke just after 4am to start my day.  My normal prerace breakfast didn’t even sound appealing, so I stuck with the liquid and had a double protein shake.  I walked from the hotel to transition…it took me less than 5 minutes! I put the final touched on my transition area (filled water bottles, etc), got body marked, and caught up with some of my triathlete friends.  At 5:45, we had to start loading the boat to head out to the swim start. READ MORE