I hesitated actually writing a race report for Ironman TX '13, but I really wanted to do it for myself to have to go back and revisit at some point and decided to put it on Facebook, because I know how much I really enjoyed reading Corey Oliver's report two years ago. So, here it [...]
2013 Ironman Texas – 15 Years in the Making Chris Avery / facebook.com/tridicted Going into my first full Ironman, I can't hide the fact that my confidence level was through the roof. I had very high expectations after having some very quality long training sessions, particularly in the pool and on the bike. With some [...]
I wasn’t going to write up a race report. I was just going to leave that to the first-timers, but this one turned out to be pretty eventful for a couple of reasons so here goes. The pro guy who spoke at the mandatory meeting couldn’t have been any more right when he said something [...]
Numero Two time trial is in the books. The only concern with the weather was the 20-24 mph winds coming out of the south-southeast on an east-west course. As I told the riders: "You will suffer on the way out but you won't suffer as much on the way back...however, you WILL suffer!" I'm not [...]
Wow, actually a good day for a time trial, especially compared to last Wednesday...or even last night! And a good crowd of 24 showed up to test the course. We had four newbies there and they handled their rides like champs. Volunteers Mike Cook and Tanya Tingle were also there to help (be sure to [...]
Congratulations to our local Ironman Texas finishers: Chris Avery 11:46:14 Jason Sanders 11:54:05 Tony Bouso 12:14:38 Cheryl Webb 14:05:35 Scott English 14:13:13 Cole Guthrie 14:20:26 Jeff Gaydos 14:28:44 Renee Umstead 14:28:46 Jessie Flores 14:35:35 Heather Emory 15:05:44 Marty Regan 15:35:29 Kirsten Wiederkehr 16:01:45 Bethanie Reyes 16:28:22 Full results can be viewed at the following URL: [...]
