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LifeSport Athlete Weekend Race Recap
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| Jul 25, 2012 |
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Amanda Stevens 2nd Pro at Ironman UK
Read her story here...Swim was good. Found some good feet and just stayed there, comfortable pace. Exited the water with the top 4 men, 15 minutes up on the next woman.
Ironman UK is one of the more challenging bike courses in the Ironman series, the road is always going up or down. Got on the bike and legs felt great. Lots of climbing, which I felt great on, with some wind and smaller twisty climbs too. On laps 2 & 3 I was descending like a champ, maneuvering around the age-groupers. Legs felt the fatigue a few times, but just told myself to find a rhythm and go with it and keep the pressure on the gas. I was able to enter T2 still a comfortable 12 minutes ahead of my competitors.
The run is even more hilly, from transition it was about 1 mile downhill then a huge hill, then down a trail and back up a steep incline then out on to the looping section which turned out to be 3miles down and then 3 miles up, into a headwind! Focused on moving forward, finding a rhythm, and relaxing. Could see my lead dwindling...8min, to 4min, the next girl was gaining pretty quickly, but kept telling myself, there is still a lot of time left in the race, just focus on yourself and keep going forward. Eimear passed me at mile 19. I tried to go with her and that didn't happen, legs didn't respond. I never gave up, knowing there was still 7 miles to go and anything could happen. So I kept focused and moving, never been so happy to see the finish line!
LifeSport Age Grouper Pascale Butcher won her age group (W50-54) at IMUK and qualified for her 1st Kona in a time of: 13:01:45.
LifeSport Athlete Jeanne Theleen won her first race overall a little over 1 year from doing her first triathlon at the Hopkins Vineyard Triathlon.
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