Ironman Cairns 2024 – my race & review

Few months after finishing Ironman Busselton, I decided to try another one, to see if I can do it better, without suffering.

Initially I was aiming at Ironman New Zealand, but due to some circumstances, I have to pick another race. On December 2023 I finally registered for Cairns.

It makes most sense, I’ll have 6 months for training, during school holiday so the kids can come along & get the festival experiences.

I will divide this writing into 5 sections : training, final week preparation, race week, race day, post race evaluation

The 3 minutes recap is on this video

My Ironman Cairns 2024

Ironman Western Australia – Busselton 2022 (my race report)

“Djakawinata Susilo from Indonesia, come on through, you are an Ironman!”

That 15 seconds moment in the finisher chute, a four years journey, through sweats, injuries, and endless support from my family, my coaches, my training communities, and my friends.

After Ironman 70.3 Desaru in July 2022, I only had 2 races left in my calendar, Palembang Triathlon and Jakarta Marathon. Then suddenly Palembang Triathlon was cancelled 2 weeks before the race. Feeling disappointed, before I went to sleep, I looked at Ironman website and saw that Ironman Western Australia was still open for registration, just about time when Australia finally starting to issue visitor visa for Indonesian citizen. I checked with Tri Travel for their package then hurriedly applied for visa. All the while I started to ramp up my training. Then things started to fall into places, the visa was approved, still got a slot for accomodation & registration, got reasonably priced flight tickets, and suddenly everything was moving fast in a blur.

During my peak training month I usually had 1 swim session, 3 bike sessions, 3 run session, 3 gym sessions, and 1 yoga session in a week. I also really watched what I eat to get my body down to ideal race weight (back to my post grad body weight, yeay). All the while normal life continue to go on, work at the office, time for family, but somehow all things went well enough. So it’s very tough to maintain the balance for those all activities.

Kisah sebuah perjalanan, Minitri -> Ironman.

Busselton, 4 Desember 2022 jam 11 malam, gerbang finish Ironman Western Australia :

“Djakawinata Susilo from Indonesia, come on through, you are an Ironman!”

Sebuah race yang dimulai pada pagi hari itu, namun perjalanannya dimulai 4 tahun yang lalu.

Kilas balik

Oktober 2018

Lapangan Aula Barat, Institut Teknologi Bandung, bersama teman-teman 94nesha yang baru saja melakukan celebration run untuk finish bersama relay ITB Ultra Marathon. Saya dapat leg di tengah, berjarak 12.3 km, dan itu jarak terjauh saya berlari. Walau kaki pegal2, saya berpikir, ini seru juga ya, sepertinya saya akan mulai lari secara rutin.

Ironman 70.3 Desaru Coast 2022 – my personal review & race report

I was supposed to race 70.3 Goseong in 2020, but the race was postponed. Since traveling to Korea wasn’t possible in 2022, I decided to take deferral to Desaru.

A lot of Indonesian triathlon friends also joined this race, including the amazing 94nesha relay team of Susanty, Nova, and Ahmad who finished first in mixed relay category, big congrats 👏👏

Belitung Triathlon 2022

My first triathlon race in 2022 turn out to be Belitung in May, organized by Indonesia Triathlon Series. This time they were allowed to have more participants and can offer two race distance options, sprint and olympic. Last year was invitations only with single race distance.

Happy to see familiar faces that also raced here or at Lombok last year.

Arriving at the Belitung airport