Longhorn Half Ironman Oct 5th 2008

Dom Gillen decided to warm up for XTerra World's by going to Texas to race in the heat. Dom we hope will put together a nice blog about the event. But if for whatever reason you didn't google "Longhorn Half Ironman" on the web, here it is. Dom raced to a personal best 3:59:40. He finished just out of 10th place (11th place), 10 minutes off of winner Richie Cunningham (an Australian with a lot of excellent 70.3 results). Dom also finished behind such notables as Tim DeBoom and Simon Lessing by 5 and 6 minutes respectively.

Dom's a little tired but when he gets a chance he'll give us some color about the race, share his experience and thoughts, including his disappointment that he missed the top 10 (but also his excitement that he did a PR time).

Here's a nice article from Slowtwitch on the race.