Mountain Man Half Ironman

So, looks like I never posted about this race... better do it now before I forget more about it. 

My training up to the race was very much lacking... all year it's been lacking due to different priorities.  I'm not sure at this point whether I will continue to do triathlons or not... I think I probably should, but maybe not as intensely. 

So, the race.  Going in I thought it would be tough for me to make the cutoff for the run.  I had something like 4:45 to do it, but my previous best for the swim and bike at that distance (my only 1/2) was 5:30 or something like that... I basically had to swim and bike in the time it took me just to bike in Boise.  I nearly made it, but came up a little bit short... and I had already resigned myself to not going on to the run, so I think somewhat I made myself miss the cutoff so I wouldn't "have" to.

My swim time was 48:32, which is slower than Boise, but not too bad.  The bike time was 3:57, which was way faster than Boise, 14.2 mph vs. 11-something.  Overall I came into the second transition at 4:52, missing the cutoff by about 7 minutes.  I don't really know if they would have stopped me from going on to the run either... didn't seem like it, but I was just done. 

So, I took my second DNF in a triathlon, but I don't feel bad about it.  I made a big improvement in my bike time, had I made the cutoff and struggled my way through the run, I would have probably improved my overall 1/2 pr by about an hour. 

Week 11/13 to Mountain Man Half

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Total
Swim	:30
	900m
Bike		:30
		trainer
Run			:46
			4 miles
DQS
Notes	229.2 31.7%

Week 10/13 to Mountain Man Half

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Total
Swim
Bike				:30			:50
							10 mi
Run			:40		:40	:45
			3 mi		3 mi	2 mi hike
DQS
Notes						231 30.7%

So, I've been pretty busy and traveling, etc... but now it is down to the wire on my training for this race (and I'm way behind).  Just going to leave this blank and fill in what I do I think... rather than try to plan too much out.  I think I need to try to do some type of workout every day at this point, to be anywhere close to being able to finish the half, forget about improving any of my times.