Sharing my ironman world championship experience last September.
An experience I will cherish for the rest of my life 🙂
Thanks for watching..
Hello folks morning and it’s Thursday and as you can see I’m now in these France yeah so we arrived yesterday um Wednesday around um 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon here knes time and I really don’t have much sleep so I guess my body clock is still adjusting
Because I slept around 10:30 last night but woke up around 4:00 a.m. this time normally I I won’t be able to sleep when traveling especially on long hours and with a transit in the middle I guess my body is still still uh not there there but anyway I just want to
Kind of enjoy the view in the morning here in n France and see and just have a quick run for me to kind of shake things off time check right now it’s around 715 in the morning so far I’m loving it it’s very nice and at this hour temperatur is around
19° so as you can see I’m wearing a jacket but people outside like I think they already used to the uh weather here or the temperature let’s go have some R O I can feel the cold the breeze so cold this is cold for me Already wow look at this man oh wow this is what you call me friends Man right as you can see behind me uh this is the swim start for this coming Sundays race and it’s quite nice though at this hour the water is calm but I don’t know what’s the temperature here so we just have to find out maybe you
Know again tomorrow I try to do a uh Recon swim Here thank you Wo Oh right I’m here in the famous I love N All right folks so I’m done with my short run with actually it’s not really a short a run but a sightseeing run Wow all I can say is this place is so amazing can’t wait to explore it further with my family first let’s focus on the
Race so I’m on my way to the hotel uh just going to freshen up and then straight away to go and collect my race pack right see you in a while I’m back and and for today I’m with my KD who will accompany me to collect the race pack say hi to the
Video K me hi yeah you again just like in Subic right do you also went with me when we get the race Pack Collection yeah am I right yeah yes so we’re going to just walk from our hotel so no complaints Ker okay okay [Applause]
Great oh this is this area is full of poison you know that kitty poison He Hello uh checked in hello hi hi so we’re done here with my KD and I don’t know today you complain a lot why why why do you complain a lot I know okay okay we’re going back now to the hotel man I need to quickly come out
From the Expo because there’s a lot of poison there poison poison things to you know lot of things to buy and the Pino ever arriv a big shout out to all our poo from the village be a massive shout out from princess galura she wishes you well she says good
Luck looking Pretty in Pink all right so good morning folks and it’s Friday and I’m on my way to do a swim Recon just to test the water and definitely I’m going to do wet suit CU even now feel cold already and I’m chilling man actually I do have two activities
Uh scheduled today one is the swim and then next is just a quick Recon ride with my friend OS so I’m in the beach front now not sure if I need to go to the swim start which is a bit far from here should the same temperature in
Water so might as well do it near my Place a few moments Later A All right so I’m here doing my bike checked in is that first phase of the race as as always every World Champs all those big brands are taking their numbers okay so here we are so this is supposed to be the swim so there’s a lot of folks here checking in as
Well okay guess this a way I lost through here lock y goat and that’s the goat joh frino first time I saw him in person check okay here glasses choose tomorrow tomorrow yeah sock and then socks I don’t need socks food and drinks tomorrow tomorrow uh gloves have gloves yeah and
Some number in the red bag something to wipe you don’t need it on the B tomorrow you will have to grab it okay so we will come out from here it’s up to you but you don’t have To change change grab your bike and thank you right so bike gear checked in ah let’s go let’s check the bike check in the bike let’s find where my bike is going to be I guess it’s very far man look it’s still 200 so I’m 2330 so I’m going
To have a long run in the transition tomorrow I don’t think I can get 5 minutes off it we’ll See all right so bike is checked in and next is I’m going to check in my rer hell hello good afternoon 2 331 peace go yeah My run gear are here so next say come out and call it the day just see you tomorrow for the race day see you tomorrow morning guys so it’s race day andoo well we just found out that this is a non wet suit race good thing I
Bring along my swim skin and hopefully I can manage the cold although they’re saying it’s like 248° so I’m heading down there uh to prepare uh the last minute setup on the bike for my nutrition and it’s race time yeah time check now is like 540 and it’s still dark
Here so my hotel today transition is around 10 minute walk so but I have to walk a little bit faster cuz I I don’t want to waste or you know Crown myself there right catch you later so this is the prle bike course I think this is where bikes
Will kind of pass and then on the other side on other side of the fence is the um the Run course can you see it’s still night time here we’re passing the L Royale so I just passed by the security checks and now we’re inside the transition area while it’s a little bit
Uh far so got to walk a little bit more all right so bike is prepared and this is it until we send you on your Way okay so I’m back again uh um well it’s actually um our last day here in nice and so far uh so far we enjoyed every single bit here in n and well to be honest it’s kind of not sure if I’m excited to go home
Or or want to go home because you know nce is actually a very nice place to kind of chill out and you know spend spend uh more time here cuz there’s actually there’s a lot of uh places that you can go and I think 5 days here is not enough
Especially if you you’re with with two kids and a toddler right so anyway so I’m here behind me is the famous I love nce sign and in front of me is actually the overlooking uh Shoreline of the H the weather’s a bit gloomy and well actually just started just today for the
Past well 10 days that I were here during the race it was very it was sunny it was sunny and it’s very nice and a beautiful weather anyway so the purpose of this video is actually uh to kind of share my thoughts regarding my experience of my Iron Man World Championship
Race well to be honest I still can’t believe that qualified for this race because since 2015 uh when I started Triathlon all I really want was just to be on a healthy lifestyle and racing in a Iron Man World Championship is just merely a dream you know let yet alone qualified for it
Right because you you have also other uh ways to get you know get into this race like the Legacy right need to do 12 Iron Man’s in order for you to kind of register for this race but here I am racing the world championship qualified for
It it’s like a dream you know turn into a reality and I can’t believe that I really did this okay so let’s start off uh I just want to share my thoughts about the race itself in the race morning so let’s start with the swim um
Well few days back there there was no uh final announcement about if this is a wet suit swim or non wet suit but uh only after around 5:00 a.m. on race day that they announced that it is a non wet sup face good good thing that I brought
With me to cater both so I have my wet suit and as well as my swim skin but I was hoping that it was a wet suit swim because I felt that it will be much easier because it it’s more buoyant well it turned out that it was kind of a blessing in
Disguise because my swim experience was kind of uh easy and very comfortable because of the water temperature easy in a sense that it’s not fast but I I didn’t really struggle swimming so the swim is a uh kind of a m loop it’s a one Loop but on
A m shape it’s kind of unique though it was a uh deep swim start just like in Kona my age group was the last wave to start so definitely I’m expecting that 90% of the bikes are already gone on the transition and I ended up uh completing my swim around 1 hour
38 it’s not my fastest swim but I felt that uh it was a a good swim for me a good result compared to the Subic which is horrible that was horrible swim now on the bike leg so this is where you know things get rough in paper it was around like uh 2,4
A with an average gradient of 5 to 7% and sprinkle it with like 133% of uh kind of steep climb uh start of the around 20 km Mark and I know for a fact that um this is going to be a long day and it’s going
To be a hard bike so I really did Pace myself and just enjoy the whole experience I didn’t push because my goal on this race is actually just to finish and be an Iron Man World Champ finisher and not destroying myself because um I wanted that I will be fresh
Uh after race because we have a lot of plans with my family here in this I want to kind of enjoy nce you know without suffering myself cuz I know that we’re going to go to you know Villages where you need to uh walk up is a Healy Villages right
And on top of that I’m I’m with my two kids and pushing a stroller so I can’t imagine if I I destroyed myself on the race and then explore these afterwards so that will be a disaster so again going on to the bike I just uh took it easy especially on the
Climbs and then I just made some kind of a push in in terms of uh the on The Descent you know just to cover a little time you know although it’s kind of uh scary the fact that it’s a very technical course and you have have to
Kind of be present in every moment every Turns You So you you’re you need to be alert finished the bike with a 7R 52 and came into transition 2 felt really good and then on the run it’s actually a for Loop uh within the uh the prominade SLE
Going to the airport so it’s a for Loop and and running around prominade the song is kind of fun because you know the the people the the supporters you know you can see everywhere The Vibes is is very fun not boring looks good right and I just again took easy on the Run
Uh I didn’t push because for me starting the run you know I feel that it’s really in the in the bag so I’m going to be a world champion finisher I was entering the carpet going into the Finish Line I mean the the crowd was electrifying you
Know I I I was not able to re realize that my my girls are are are there in the stage cuz well you know the the crowds was really know kind of setting the mood you know finishing so and as I make my way to the finish line and reach the Finish Line
Come Yes then I became a World Champ finisher feeling was like it’s I can explain it to be honest until now I I I still cannot believe that I’ve raised the world championship it’s like living the dream the dream you know of being a Iron Man World Championship
Finisher I think that’s all I have in terms of my experience you know um so thank thank you about to my family for the support you know and understanding of you know especially during the the trainings I know that I I I sto some time for especially for for my kids
But yeah I’m just so thankful and most especially to God almighty for giving me the strength and the means to do this Triathlon that I love so since I’m already a world CHS so what’s next well definitely I’m still going to continue doing Triathlon right I’m going to do Iron
Man maybe focus in 70.3 for now again another dream of mine to qualify for a World Champ in a 70.3 and yeah just continue be better and improve myself as long as I can yep I think that’s it that’s all I have for my Iron Man World Championship uh
Experience and journey thank you for watching my video until next time ciao