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One day less than 2 weeks after Ironman USA, Tiff and I traveled to Benton Harbor, MI for the Whirlpool Steelhead 70.3 Triathlon (Half-Iron Distance).  The weather was shaping up to be pretty nice, if maybe a little hot. The course has been described as fast and includes a 1.2mi swim in Lake Michigan, a 56mi bike over rolling hills & a 13.1mi run over slightly less rolling hills. Now normally the part I am looking forward to least is the swim (it is my weakest event), so when we walked down to the swim start (a 1mi walk north of the transition area) and were told that because of the choppy waters they would be cancelling the swim, one would think I would be happy about this…I wasn’t. Why? It is no longer a Triathlon…what ended up happening is a Duathlon with a 2mi run instead of the swim. There was a part of me that was looking forward to my first large Lake swim in a race.

Enough of that…on to the results.

Tiffany and I both finished strong and near where we wanted to be (time-wise). My legs were still a bit soft from Ironman, so my performance suffered a little. My one main goal was to not walk except through water stops (I absolutely cannot drink/eat anything while running), and I was successful there.

Tiffany Overall Time: 4:41:41

Jeremy Overall Time: 4:57:16

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All said and done, this was a pretty good race, and I would certainly do it again. Next up…Vermillion, OH

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