Ironman 70.3 Florida

Written by Lauren Cortjens

This was a HOT race!  I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought that.  The race was extremely well organized.  They had everything together and knew what to do for the most part if something went wrong.  For instance… I had a flat tire coming out of transition, and being stupid me, it took me 45 mins to change the tire and then realize that the valve on my spare was broken too!  So since I was close to transition, I had to run back through asking for bike support, and they kept pointing me back to transition.  When I got there, the announcer dude heard that I was looking for bike support and came over the speakers telling me where to go.  The guy was also running towards me to help.  He sprinted off to get me a new tire, put it on my rim, and pumped it up for me, and put the rim back on my bike in like 1 minute!  I felt a little more stupid by then.  He was awesome!!!  I should’ve gone there first instead of struggleing with the tire myself since I had never changed on before! �  But overall, the roads were blocked off well and there were no really close calls with cars like there are on some race courses.  All the people helping were so happy all the time!  It’s Disney!  What do you expect!  I mainly did the race for a spot in Ironman, FL, which I got.  And it was cool to see all the pros there too since I usually do Gulf Coast and this was my first actual 70.3.  I would do the race again just because of the proximity to Atlanta, but am going to try my hand at Augusta in September, which is even closer!!! �