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2017 IRONMAN 70.3 Thailand

I showed up prepared. One good sleep prior race day, up at 4:30am, had a slice of brown bread, arrived at transition for the setup at 5:30am, 15mins get everything ready, gently move to the beach for gentle warm up and wait for the rolling start. YingHo and I queued in the 36-40m zone. The course was a rectangle shape course, 400m swim out and right turn for 700m journey, 300m back to the shore then 400m back to last turning bouy then 100m to swim finish. Rope line up all the way so you won’t swim off course if you sight wrongly. Easy!  Swim Beep start, one two running into the water and one two dolphins dive starting the swim, oh damn I was in 36-40mins zone why there are so many breakstroke on the front?? I had to swim over a few osculates from time to time, funny enough I saw some people holding the rope and checking the Garmin...no good feet to follow but just keep passing people, more kicking in last 200m, exit the swim at 34’57” PB swim split perfect! T1 They built the tran