I wish I would've known about that hill before my race. I feel like if I would've been able to run it a few months before I would've been able to mentally prepare and charge it during the 70.3, rather than giving up and walking up it.

I wish I would've known about that hill before my race. I feel like if I would've been able to run it a few months before I would've been able to mentally prepare and charge it during the 70.3, rather than giving up and walking up it.

Here's the thing you think the hill is over but then you make the right turn and urg another half mile?

I will say that I think it might be the best ever pure run performance in a 70.3 race. That course is absurd. It has about 100m less net elevation than St. George, but it all comes at once. St. George is easier to get into a rhythm, both uphill and downhill. That course - Syracuse - you have to grind the uphill and then maintain really, really fast turnover on the downhill. St. George was also short; Syracuse MIGHT be short, but if so, not by much. I started my watch late, and I got closer to an accurate 21.1 than in St. George, which was clearly almost 1km short.

When I saw how fast Lionel ran, I was honestly in disbelief. He passed me on the flats, where it's easier to motor. I almost wished I'd gotten to see him run up and down the big hill, but he was basically gone by the time I got there.

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