I knew that swimming was going to be my worst part of the event and I didn't disappoint myself. I felt pretty good on the first lap but on the second lap I started to get jostled and kicked a little so that shook me. I swam to the ladder to catch my breath and gather myself and continued on. I think my real goal was just to get out of the water and get to the bike which I did. A note on this course for anyone who may do it in the future, the back part of the swim is very shallow and difficult to swim in. It is a beach so most people actually ran probably 75 yards along the beach.

I really need to continue to work with a swim coach and get in the open water with a group and do some swimming.

I felt pretty good getting out of the water but my rack was way to the back of transition in a parking lot with a lot of loose rocks that I wasn't prepared for so that slowed me down. Just tried to catch my breath, get my wetsuit off and get bike gear on. I didn't think I did bad but 4:26 tells be otherwise. I was hoping for around 2:30 but I'll blame it on the distance from swim to bike and then I had to go all the way back thru transition to get to the mount line.

Not much....just move my a$$

In my mind I wanted to average 20mph but realistically I would be happy with 17mph so close to 19 mph makes me very happy. Only the 3rd ride on the new bike and 2nd with aero bottle so I wasn't aero as much as I would have liked. The roads were not completely closed so occasionally you would be overtaken by a car. I passed more riders then I got passed by so I would call it a success.

not much. Just more training.

Run start was way back where my spot was so that cut down on transition from T1. Got bike racked OK, shoes off and running shoes on ok.

Need to think about a lacing system to save some time getting shoes on.

I didn't have my heart rate monitor on but I could tell it was high when I got off the bike. I ran out of transition to clear the area but then needed to walk for a bit to try and get heart rate under control. I was looking for an 8:30 pace so 8:43 was OK. Could have been better but at mile 2 I needed to use the potty and there was only one with one person in and another waiting so that definitely cost me time, I should have just used the trees :) Considering the issues I was having with my achilles tendon the last week or so I was happy I was able to finish. At around mile 2.5 I could feel it tightening up but I knew if I stopped to try and stretch it would probably get worse so I just ran through it.

More brick workouts!

Had a Sam Adams and got stretched out by ATI physical therapy. Just took in the atmosphere and enjoyed the fact that I had finished and other than T1 my times were what I was expecting. I was looking for a time of 1:35:00. There were plenly of places to find that 2:14 so I'm not discouraged.


IT band and achilles issues for the last month so I really cut back on my training.


With the Racine HIM coming up in 6 weeks I need to hit it hard. I'm pretty sure I can manage the bike and run but I really need to stepup the swimming!