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It was a very restless night of sleep for me. Oddly enough, I tend to sleep very well on the night before my races but this pre-race sleep (or lack thereof) was unusual. Karel, on the other hand, slept amazingly well. As I watched the clock, which seemed like every hour, go from 1am, 2am, 3am...it was finally time to wake-up at 3:45am.  Karel started the coffee and we both ate our pre-race meals and started to get hydrated. The overall mood in our condo was positive as we were both ready to get this 140.6 mile party started.  After getting dressed in our race gear, filling my powder-filled bike and run bottles with cold water (Karel froze his special needs bike and all of his run bottles - which didn't help as they both were warm when he got to them) and double checking that we had everything, we walked out of our condo (Kona Plaza) and to the race venue, just a few minutes away.  It is very motivating to see the finish line (aka final destinati...

After writing many race reports on my blog over the past 9 years, I've learned two things about how valuable it is to write a race report: 1) It is so great to be able to go back to a race report and "re-live" the race experience and to learn from the race after it happens.  2) It is always better to write a race report soon after the race happens as that is when emotions, thoughts and feelings are most real, raw and true. Reason number two is why I chose to  record a video recap  just a few hours after crossing my 10th Ironman and 4th IM World Championship finish line. But, reason number two is also why I have waited over a week since crossing the 2015 IM Kona finish line to start my series of race reports from the race. I was filled with a variety of emotions, thoughts and feelings in the 72 hours after the race.  There were some smiles and some tears as I was on a roller coaster of emotions.  I'm sure I don't have to describe what I...