Holy Schnickies that was hard, seriously what an experience. I have a bunch of stuff to report but I need to compose it and then I will give you a reasonable race report on the whole thing. I have great data from the Garmin including the swim. All in all a great weekend with many highlights, including.

• Meeting Michelle aka Rural Girl for a nice settle in warm up swim on Saturday in three foot waves, this helped me settle my nerves a ton on race day. Thanks Michelle,:)

• Then getting beat by her on race day, but let me tell you there is no shame in that, she is a very impressive and driven athlete and person.

• Getting good weather on race day for the most part, touch of wind on the bike course but not a big deal.

• Learning to love my new Tri Club, the Fox Cities Triathlon Club. What great support I had on the course from everyone. "Lets go Tri Fox", was the slogan of the day.

• Learning some things about endurance sport, triathlon and my potential.

• And best of all crossing the finish line of my first ever 70.3 event in 5:27:48 Garmin had it at 5:27:44 and 70.29 miles covered, amazing huh? And you could have stuck a fork in me because I was DONE.

• 133/431 Half Iron Finishers, 112/269 Male Half Iron Finishers, 26/52 in my age group

Formal race report in a day or two.