Half-Ironman in Pucon, Chile

I celebrated my birthday last weekend by going to Pucon, Chile to compete in the Half-Ironman there. It was hard. Harder than I thought it would be. And I was slow. Not surprising considering I haven't trained in almost 2 months. It is a fairly famous race and there were about 40 pros there, for the supposedly "hardest Half-Ironman in the world".

I made some mistakes and had some excitement that I wish I didn´t have as well. An hour before the race I had 2 flat tires! Too much pressure I guess. But only one spare. It freaked me out because that meant that if I got another flat my race was over, with no spare. And that meant that I didn't have time to warm up.

I finished in 6:29, which was about half an hour slower than I expected. But I was happy enough with the bike considering I haven´t ridden in over a month.

The run was a killer. It was 3 laps through a park and then through town. The park bit was up and down several steep hills, and it killed me, and most people... 3 times.

It was great fun though and all the people from my hostal came out to cheer for me, which was awesome. Actually they helped make it the most fun race I´ve ever done. There were about 10,000 or so fans there, a beautiful setting on a lake with mountains and volcanoes surrounding, and the weather was perfect, about 70 degrees. But next time I need to train!