Wow. Where to start? waves were rough, knocked my goggles off but luckily I was able to catch them and get them back on. Got stung 5 times by jellyfish. Sighting buoys got dragged further from shore by the rip tide. Fun first ocean swim. Once i got past the breakers the swim was pretty typical, except for the jellyfish.

Not sure there is anything i could have done. Put goggles under swim cap like i normally do to prevent them from getting pulled off.

no data, lumped in with swim time. my HRM became unhooked and i wasted a lot of time trying to put it back on here before tossing it on the ground.

I liked the course, was nice to race something flat for once. The road was a little rough in spots but not too bad. strong headwind in some areas when riding along Ocean Blvd, but didn't get any tailwind help when we went a few streets over in the opposite direction.

T2 was included, garmin avg was 25 mph

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included in bike time, went smooth

Nice to run a course with no hills. Was hard to judge my effort since I had no HRM. I was told i was 4th off the bike with the 3 in front having had a 3 minute head start on the swim, open racers, so i knew i wasn't going to catch anyone. didn't see any other runners the whole time in front or behind. got some good encouragement from riders on the course.

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talked about jellyfish and bikes


the ocean swim for sure.


the swim was the hilliest part of the race, very flat fast course. Lots of volunteers out everywhere and very well organized and run. Will probably do it again in the future if it fits my schedule.