She started the bike leg routing by almost 6 minutes, however that the 140.6 format constantly leads to a long day appeared when Anne Reischmann then started a catch-up race to eventually accomplishment at Ironman Cozumel.
After the 3.8 kilometer swim in the constantly quick waters of Cozumel– where professional athletes swim with the existing from behind– it was Julie Iemmolo who took the lead thanks to a time of 44:46 minutes. Her lead over the very first chasers– Lisa Perterer and Rach McBride– was more than 2 minutes and behind them the distinctions were larger. Reischmann hence followed at 5:53 minutes and was tenth when she began the bike.
On the bike, Perterer rapidly rode towards Iemmolo on her own therefore a leading group of 2 females formed. It remained that method for a very long time, too, while Reischmann started an incredible catch-up race, getting lots of positions and simply as much time. After about fifty kilometers she was currently in 3rd position and after that she continued to reach the leaders. After 130 kilometers she even joined them, just to ride far from Iemmolo and Perterer very little later on and hence definitively take control of the lead in the race. Her lead proliferated in the last kilometers, ultimately entering T2 with a four-minute lead over Iemmolo, Perterer and likewise Margrit Elfers.
Throughout the run, Reischmann understood not to let herself get insane, to draw her own strategy and hang on up until the surface. There was not a minute any longer that her success remained in risk; on the contrary, as her lead continued to grow till the surface.
Reischmann won the race in 8:38:08. Perterer was 2nd in 8:44:24 and Justine Mathieux 3rd in 8:51:03