The 1.9 km swim was pretty messy, over 1000 people from different legs swimming in such small area, but I took it pretty easy, did it 44.05 min, then it came 90 km biking and I have to tell that my bike sucks, have a feeling that all the athletes pass me on the bike, either I was too slow or my 500 Euro aluminium frame road bike have some influence compared to normal triathlon recing bike, althought I complete it in 2h 59min and after that came the most painful part, the half marathon, 21.1 Km under very though conditions, over 30C and the sun on top of us, terrible, it took me 2h 13min to complete it, total time 6h 03min to finish my first Half Ironman.
Occur situation was the fact that I met during the half marathon the only Portuguese (apart of me) that was participating, while I was running saw an athlete which the socks had Brazilien flag, have asked him if he was Brazilien and he said "No, I'm Portuguese", world is pretty small, after the race had chat with him, nice guy, sad that few Portuguese participate in this kind of events!!
Now, looking forward for the next one, do I have balls for the full one?!?
Muito me contas...!!!!! Não sabia deste teu "profissionalismo", nesta coisa das maratonas!!!!
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