Nothing. Wonderful swim. I remember years ago I had to breastroke much of the swim. Now it was a piece of cake and I swam freestyle the whole way and never felt tired.

As I got close to the take-out point in the water I went over the transition in my head. I had this fear if putting my helmet on before I put my shirt on and then having to take it off again...so I went over in my hear "shoes, shirt, belt, helmet". I said this over and over and T1 went really fast. I bent over to put my shoes on and when I straightend up I got really dizzy.

Course was relatively flat with just a few rollers; no climbs per se.

Nothing. I did all I could do.

Racked bike, flipped off shoes, sat down and put my socks and shoes on, ate 3 Tums and took off. Very fast transistion for me.

As I was leaving T2 I was turning my race number around to the front and one of the little black cap things popped off. Dang! After the race I came back to about were it popped off and was looking for it. Some guy saw me looking around and asked what I was looking for. I told him and some other guy heard it and said "Yeah, I hate that. I've lost a few." And no sooner did he say that than he bent over and picked up the little cap thing!

I've had 'race number belt' failure before. Next time I race I'm gonna use a safety pin to secure my number to the race belt.

Without a doubt, my weight hurt me. I was at 293 lbs this morning. For reference, I was at 255 last year at IMKY.


Given my lack of training from Feb 2 - July 15, I did as well as I think I could have done with only 5 weeks of training since my surgery and the extra weight I'm packing.

This is a great race. It is well run, the course is pretty cool as it is on Redstone Arsenal and goes by weapons/ammo bunkers and various military buildings. The run thru the woods was awesome!