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Racine 70.3 - Race Report

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I singed up for Ironman Racine 70.3 thinking this half ironamn distance race will be the last practice race before my biggest goal for the year Ironman Mont Tremblant. Race date is 4 weeks before the IM so perfect time to test my fitness, dial-in my nutrition and practice my IM pacing and strategy.  Race location is also very convenient, only about 1.5 hours drive from Chicago, which means we can actually drive up Saturday afternoon. In the weeks leading to the race, my training was going as planned.  Made it to the lake (Lake Michigan that it) once, and boy that was a cold one, been doing my long rides, long runs, etc. On Racine's bike course (July 4th pre-ride)  We even made it up to Racine on July 4th to ride the bike course and see what's it like.  I was looking forward to racing this bike course.  Fun rolling course, mostly out of town, windy (as if there is a course in this area that is not windy). Fast forward to race week, I had two objectives for the race and o