3 years of doing 70.3 IM NC. Such a fun race in one of my favorite coastal towns of Wilmington/Wrightsville beach. Overall, a great race. 6th this year compared to 5th from last year, but due to the fast swim current, I improved my swim 8 minutes. On the bike I had a major rookie mistake and forgot to load my nutrition bottle on the bike, which meant stopping at the first aid station and loading up as much as I could carry, giving up some time, but also really important. There my bike was 2 minutes slower than 2023. On the run, I was right around the same as previous years with a 1:28. The 5th place finisher was over 2 minutes ahead of me, so I needed quite a considerable improvement to catch up to them.
Category: Race
2024 Race: Boone Gran Fondo
Year 2 of doing the Suarez Gran Fondo National Race in Boone. In 2023 I was prepping for IM WC in Nice, so I decided to use this race as some climbing prep and pretty much treated it like a 100 mile ride on my TT bike, versus a gran fondo of racing the timed segments. This year, I used my gravel bike, put on my TT bike wheels and raced it a little more traditionally. Overall, it such a beautiful Course (lots of it is on the Blueridge Parkway) and some fun climbing in the NC mountains.
Race wise it went reasonably well with 10th in my category.
Race: ORAMM 2024
Another great experience racing ORAMM (Off-Road Assault on Mount Mitchell). Some of the coolest temps but also pretty slick from all the rain we have had lately. This was my slowest time over the 4 years racing this event, but due to that it was probably the most enjoyable 🙂
2024 Belgian Waffle Ride – North Carolina
Race: 2024 – Woods Mountain
3 minutes slower than in 2022 🙂
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