This was my known weakness going in to the tri. I just planned on "surviving" this, because I felt my swim performance had not come as far as I would have liked before doing an OWS. This was my first OWS, and first tri, and it really didn't bother me too badly. I got kicked and did some kicking myself, and it really wasn't bad at all. I am not scared of water, and have swam in lakes on and off my whole life. I never took a break (yay me!) and I side stroked almost the whole thing. I just couldn't get into any sort of crawl, so I figured to just keep moving and not get too far off of course. The first 100m I thought I was going to die, but pressed on and just grinded through the swim. Pretty proud of that, despite being slow. I have a lot to improve upon, but it is exciting to be a place where you can make huge strides quickly.

My goggles fogged up badly for some reason, so I just took them off. Didn't seem to bother me since I was doing the side stroke. If I continue on with tris, I'll be getting some new goggles. I had Speedo Speed Sockets for this race.

Train? Learn how to swim? Learning how to swim has been a difficult process for me, and I think that I really needed more than 3 months of TI to be more proficient.

Forgot to move the timing chip so it got stuck when I was trying to extricate my wetsuit. Otherwise, the transition went fairly smoothly. I was right around the middle of my age group as far as T1 time goes.

remove timing chip before ditching wetsuit.

I hammered the bike, and felt good. I'm a big rider, so climbing suffered, but it has suffered a long time. ;-) Passed a LOT of people, and I really enjoyed the bike ride. There was some tech corners, and I loved it. Lots of places I could really make some time up by railing corners and passing people on their swanky tri bikes. I borrowed a Pinarello Dogma for the race and it performed awesome. Probably should have drank more on the bike but my water was warm and I was having fun.

Get a tri bike and inflict more pain upon my competitors. :-0

I'm wasn't exactly by the book when it came to T2, but I didn't really care that much. My lost time didn't really happen during the transition areas.

nothing I guess. 12/34

Couldn't find my legs, and had to walk a good bit. Maybe I went too hard on the bike, but I think I should have been able to run more than I did.

Train more! I didn't run nearly enough, but plan on implementing more run in my training.

I hugged my kids and ate a free cheeseburger. NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM


lack of training.


I enjoyed the race and would consider doing it again.