Started the swim by accident smack dab in the middle and in frount. There was a 3 count for the start and I had wadded out to the front. Got swum over by tons of people. Had to breath every stroke on left side for the first 300. Then things spread out and I relaxed. Drafted when I could, but the guy I keep drafting kept drifting. That and I kept getting too close.

As with the rest of my race report, I will have to work on bricks and speed drills. I swam as well as expected considering I have never swum like spawning salmon before.

I have no clue, completely forgot to start stopwatch at the swim and started it in the middle of the T1.

consider practicing the drill a few times just to get a rythem down.

First lap was quick, used the areo bars for about 5 miles of it. Played tag with a team mate on the hills for about 6 miles, would get passed on the climb and pass on the down hills.

Had a problem at about mile 1.5 on my second lap. Had to lock the breaks to avoid a collision with a car. The damn police officer (and by nature I like them, since I go out to dinner with a bunch of them) was gas bagging with an official while directing traffic. Fortunatly, I was watching what he was doing more than him. I saw his back to me as he was waving traffic through the entersection. I stayed at race pace hopping he caught a glimps of me or the cars were running out. No luck. I had to lock the breaks and almost went down so I did not broadside a car. Would have made for a very crappy day. All he could say was sorry sir. Hopefully he woke up after that. After all I was one of the last ridders on the course at that point.

Also had a problem on lap 2 by the church with the nasty corner. Mass was getting out and a mom and her 2 children were trying to cross. They were only looking at the cars. Had to yell "comming through" to get there attention.


Must work on areo postion and hill climbing skills. Also need to get some more long distance rides in.

still suffered getting the sox on. Even wore anlkle sox which helped over full length sox.

catch my breath going into transition by slowing down just a little earlier, so I would not be quite so disorganized

very flat and fast. Felt prety good comming off the bike. Felt my legs slowing down as the race progressed. I am not sure due to fogetting to reset my splits, but I know the first 2 miles were around 10 minute miles. I was hopping for faster, but no brick training and not pushing past 7 mile runs this spring will do that.

Work on some speed drills, but more importantly follow Glens suggestion of longer runs.

close to colapsed at the end of the run. Hobbled over to the food tent and went nuts. I have never craved oranges so much in my life! Would have liked to get some more food in me before I left the tent for the first time, but Trifury wanted a team photo. Since I was the last in they had been waiting for me. :) They wanted the tall people in back and short in front. I just sat down and said fill in around me. Did not get up for a good 10 minutes. All I asked of myself was not to DNF and to leave nothing on the course. I did that in spades


This was my first Oly and I would have liked to finish further ahead in may age bracket let alone over all. I have learned alot and next season will be an Oly speed year. At first I was dissapointed to have finished so far back in my age group. When I realized the race winner was in my group and 3 of the 9 were in the top 7 overall, I did not feel so bad.


Since this is a major team event (over 20 racers between the two events with a total of about 120 people) it was like old home week. The post race activities were mostly talking to team mates and meeting racers I had dualed with at different points. The best part was the awards waited until all but the last runner was off the course to start the oly awards. They wanted to wait for the last runner, but he finished almost 30 minutes later than the second to last runner. The awards did stop to let everyone applaud his efforts. The highlight of the day was the girl who crossed the finish line second to last getting an award for 1st place in the team relay female. Helps when only one team signs up. Very fun and friendly event.