Finally it was a good one!
Today I raced the half ironman at lake mead. The race is called Rage and for me this was a training race for my full ironman in Texas next month. I had a plan going into this race and it was executed almost perfectly. It is pretty rare in racing triathlons that things go perfect but it does happen once in a while. Because this was a training race I did not want to kill myself. I needed to push my effort but not so hard that my training this upcoming week would suffer. I have a lot of training over the next few weeks and have got to be on top of my game. The water at lake mead was VERY cold. I am not sure why all of the sudden I have issues with really cold water but it seems the last two races that I have done in water temps in the low 50's have been really difficult. I have raced cold water races and never had issues but these last two have challenged me in a whole new way. When I got in the water I had to slow my p...