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If you do something dumb, and it turns out way better than you could have possibly imagined, that doesn’t retroactively make it a smart choice. But it sure feels good!

I will write a full race report later tonight or tomorrow once I collect myself a bit more. The executive summary, though, is that it went pretty much perfectly.

There’s even an article in the Galveston newspaper mentioning how lucky I was.

Here’s the quick summary: On Saturday I was 2nd overall in the sprint race. On Sunday I won the half ironman race in a huge personal best time of 4:07:03. That’s an improvement of over ten minutes over my previous best, on a tough, windy day. It’s also the first time I have won a triathlon more than an hour long. I employed the time-honored pacing strategy of going absolutely as hard as you possibly can for the entire day, and it paid off! Whoo!  I was so excited I sent Stephanie the following text message right afterward: “Holy F***ing S*** I won!”

You can see the results of the sprint race and the results of the half online if you want. And I’ll write more, lots of gory detail, Real Soon Now.