I felt like a pushed the swim harder that I have in my first two tris, it felt good though and I was leading my wave throughout the first 3/4 of the swim, two others from my wave joined me at the end. Lot of jockeying for position as our wave left last so by the time I finished I had gone through 3 or so groups of different color caps.

Navigate better through the other swimmers

Wow, I was very dizzy when I got out of the water, I thought I was running striaght but kept going to the left! One of the wetsuit strippers tried to help me but I think she slowed me down more than anything else.

Still need to learn how to do the ride barefoot deal, just haven't practiced it.

Pushed the bike pretty hard - perhaps I need to try a slightly lower cadence and hammer a little more to go faster. The course has a couple hills which I have climbed faster during training sessions so I was a little dissappointed at that but finished the bike pretty strong.

perhaps a lower cadence to bring my hr down.

I think the transisitons are what are leading to my side stitches during the run...I need to take my time a little bit more and relax so I can get a good rhythm on the run. It was a pretty fast transition for me.

Run was rough..again. Side stiches pretty much from the very start all the way through the run and progressively got worse. At the end I felt like I was getting a quarter of a breath in, tops. I could have gone so much faster, very frustrating. The course was short, the results have me at a 6:40 pace which is very optimistic. I'd been trying to work on my running so I was dissappointed this didn't come around.

slower coming out of transition, really focus on breathing to get some deep breaths in and eliminate the side stiches.

quick spin on the bike, hung around and watched the awards.


Side stiches on the run.


Overall a fun race. I had a really good swim and a strong bike, my transitions could have been better and my run was bad again. Cherry creek is a pretty cool venue and the water was great, actually quite warm and although sometimes frustrating to get through the other people in the water, kind of fun at the same time. Bike was pretty good overall, could have taken the corners a bit faster to keep my speed up. Looking forward to figuring out my run. If I can get rid of these side stiches I know I can average a much faster run split.