I had to stop and breaststroke about three time to get my bearings but I kept a better line than I did the week before. I got kicked a few times. The water was like pea soup so it was typical to suddenly find yourself tangled up in someone elses arms or legs.

Sight without stopping or breaststroking

I wasted some time in T1 getting bike gloves on. I could have gone without them or put them on while riding. Seems like it took forever. I also spent too much time putting on socks but I won't ride without them.

Skip gloves and roll up socks for easy rolling on. Also would put shoes into clips for fast mounting out of T1.

I enjoyed the bike and passed lots of serious looking riders. The race results say I did 17.3 MPH but the calculations show that is impossible. I forgot to turn on my bike computer on, so I didn't get my own time.

Go harder now that I have more training and have gotten to know the bike better.

T2 went fairly quick but I didn't time it. I felt good starting the run and ran a fairly good pace to start it.

Take a drink with me as I left T2, I needed it.

I felt good at first but tired when I got to the road and hurt going up the two hills. I thought I would never get to the turn around. A lot of the people that I passed on the bike passed me back on the run. After I was back on the park path, about a half mile from the finish, I saw someone about 100 feet behind me so I stepped it up and sprinted for the finish and did finish just 10 feet in front of them.

Know the course better and not get discouraged because of not knowing how much further I had to go.

None, I went back into the lake to cool down and wash off to change clothes for the drive home.


Lack of sufficient training, I feel that I did my best during the race.


I enjoyed the race a lot, but wish they had as good a post event as I had at Emerald the week before.