I swam one loop Friday before and took my time. 36 Minutes. This was brutal contact. I was boxed in around 15 swimmers. I needed to swim about 30 yards to the right or left to pass. I gave up on second loop and just stayed on someones heals and took my time. Still got beat up. Disappointed with swim time but came out of the water fresh.

Seed myself in a faster swim group.

Took my time.

first loop took it easy. it was cloudy and cool. Finished around 2:55. Second loop around mile 75 the sun came out. My Garmin had the temp as 88 degrees. I was done. I just melted. I didn't bring salt tabs with me, The weather was forecast as rain all day and cool. My stomach turned for the worst and my nutrition suffered.

Bring salt tabs no matter what

waited for my stomach to settle before running out. Drank some water was dehydrated bad.

Bring salt tabs

I puked 3 x on the run. Could not keep anything down. Did a slow trot. Mentally draining to see everyone walking the 2nd mile into a marathon. Carnage was everywhere. I saw a dozen people puking which made me nauseous.

waited for my wife who crossed 1 hour after me.


Dehydration, salt pills


I thought the race itself was great. I felt like a professional athlete. I will be back in 2017. I want to do something different next year, Maybe something in Canada