Pictures and video courtesy of: Jessica Powell Lorna & Alan Powell John & Kira Powell Becca Hill Chris Haragan The Key family

7:10pm After crossing the line and becoming an Ironman, I was immediately given my finishers medal and a hat and shirt. I was then greeted by a volunteer that asked me how I was feeling (that’s him in the white visor). I don’t remember what I told him, but he decided it would be a […]

2:40pm If you follow my blog or have been around me much the last month, you no doubt know that I’ve been suffering from ITBS. The IT Band in my left knee has been very tight and in the six weeks leading up to Ironman, I hadn’t run more than a few miles. To say […]

8:18am The 112 mile bike course starts out fairly flat. It took a few minutes for my watch to pick-up my heart rate monitor strap, but once it did, I saw that my HR was in the low 120’s…perfect. The goal was to keep my HR low during this first flat stretch and not let […]

3:00am Alarm goes off. To my surprise, I was able to sleep well the night before the race. This night is usually filled with tossing and turning as my brain goes over the plans for the race and what I need to do in transition. With this being my first full Ironman race, I expected […]

Here’s a video I shot last Friday at the Ironman Check-In…it was actually pretty seamless…they have this perfected! Full race report coming this weekend!

I promise that I’m going to get around to typing my race report, just haven’t had time yet. In the mean time, here’s some cool stats from Slowtwitch.com Luke Powell Bib # 1255 Overall Place: 661 Gender Place: 559  (yes, I was “chicked” by 102 females…including pros) Division Place: 112 Total time: 12:08:39 SWIM Time: […]

Official 2011 Ironman Louisville race results: 2.4 mile swim 1:12:23 (1:54/100m pace) 137th out of 366 in my age group828th out of 2439 overall T1 – 6:42 112 mile bike 6:08:01 (18.26 mph) 142nd out of 366 in my age group851st out of 2439 overall T2 – 11:25 26.2 mile run 4:30:08 (10:18 min/mile pace) […]

“Ultimately, triathlon is about pain. Enduring it, knowing when it will come, and persisting through it. No matter how much you love being a triathlete, at some point a race is going to really, really suck. You don’t play triathlon. You play soccer, it fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that can leave you […]

Basically every piece of triathlon gear that I own is in one of these five bags: