DNF at IRONMAN Chattanooga

[Music] oh all right sam uh it wasn't the day you wanted uh did you feel like you had a fighting chance going into the day i felt like i had a chance i mean it's always hard to say right you toe the start line and of course you're gonna of course i'm gonna talk myself into it and say i've got a chance and and i've got the legs i knew i would have a good swim and a good bike because i always can recover well from those and the run admittedly was a big question mark my longest run since st george was five miles and uh i knew it would just be a totally i'd have it or i wanted and um and i just didn't i mean uh i got out there and i ran about a mile with my legs feeling okay and then uh the biggest it felt like i was running on stilts so my legs just had no sort of spring in them and no no ability to absorb the shock so every step was just straight up the legs it was quite painful to hit and all those little hit muscles were just completely not recovered from last weekend so it's okay i mean i knew it was a possibility i don't i don't regret anything and i'm glad i gave it a try and um it was still really fun i still got a lot of take homes i got to practice another swim great swim i got to practice a good bike had a great bike and tactical tactical bike with uh some benefits that the others got when i tried to drop them but uh you know what happens it's part of sport and uh i mean yes like there's there's a limit and limits are real and there's a physiological breaking point and i could still be out there walking it but uh yeah i mean i was probably a bit mentally trained as well when it got tough but mostly it was just i didn't want to do any damage i i after 12 miles i literally couldn't run i mean i even though it wasn't a nutritional thing it wasn't anything i couldn't run and um first off i want to say huge huge hats off to joe skipper 7 44 on this course just amazing man i'm i'm totally elated for you i'm totally stoked for you and you deserve every ounce of that it was awesome awesome to see rip that and awesome to see lionel come you know and get this iron man figured out and get second and then to have ben get third was also just terrific you know being my my biggest uh role model in this sport and getting me into it so yeah really just happy for all those guys and i'm not down on myself i knew it was a possibilities learning lessons learned and no i will never race in iron man the week after 7.3 world champs again i will never ever do that again i'd maybe do it after a regular 70.3 i think i think the demands and needs are a little less but that saint george course 2 is it's just intense and so it happens you know onwards and upwards and that's my season so i will not race again this year and time for a break take three weeks pretty much very very easy and then it's it's time for swim camp in tucson that's what it is swim camp with aqua bear and lionel in tucson and hopefully lionel i can do some video youtube collabs and and shake things up and then uh actually we're gonna try and get joe skipper out there because we need joe skipper me and lionel to all swim how we swam today but at cone at kona which is saint george um you know stg sounds kind of like kona it's three letters compared to four and um then we bike like like that and then uh then i don't race you know too much and i'm still i'm 25 i'm still learning my body i'm still learning what's possible and it's cool to set the limits and and yeah i don't want to make these mistakes in the future so admittedly if i look at my whole season there was a few too much there was just a few too many races that i tried to squeeze in after really really hard efforts and i think i'm really consistent except for when i'm tired and just don't have it on the day and um so next going forward i just have to eliminate those days and predict the days i don't have it that like sometimes it's hard to know because for example boulder 70.3 was a straight training race and i thought i maybe wouldn't have it but i just did it because i lived there and didn't have to travel anywhere and it went great and i would have been great for a 70.3 today i mean maybe i don't think i i don't think i could have run much faster than a 115 though even at 70.3 so probably not but uh life is good time to enjoy the offseason thank you everyone and uh yeah the support's overwhelming it's just been an amazing year so i'm i i haven't celebrated last weekend yet so now i'm celebrating that and again just chucked for the guys ahead of me today it's always cool to see people you like and admire and look up to do really really well and have a day they deserve so uh cheers to that

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Published: Thu Sep 30 2021