Lake Chaparral Triathlon - Olympic - TriathlonOlympic

First time trying out my new wetsuit. Third OWS ever. I am SCHOCKED at my time considering I swam 33:xx in Canmore a month ago and only do ~30min at this distance... there's a couple of options:
1) The suit is amazing and chopped off 5 min. because my swim form is so terrible without it
2) The course was short
Some mild bumping in the beginning and throughout, but nothing that hindered me. Calfs cramped a little (never happened before) but nothing I couldn't fix.
Nonetheless, I'm happy that I somehow managed to be 14th out of the water overall.

Practice more OWS - this was only my third time doing it. Need to HTFU and drive to a lake... they're just not close to me where I am.
Practice drafting and keeping up with stronger ppl to enable me to do that.

I don't know what my T1 time is because I didn't have a computer on my bike to do the math and I don't have a waterproof watch.
I could still be faster. I got the wetsuit off not bad, but I could have shaved a few seconds I think by practicing getting it off my heels more seemless. Also could have shaved a few seconds putting on my helmet/shades, etc.

Need to practice doing a flying mount.
Shoes were clipped/elasticed in which worked good.
Not good at getting shoes in while on the bike. On my first attempt my feet got wedged in weird and I had to fiddle around a bit to get them on. Not very quick and cost me some time as I had to fiddle with both shoes. PRACTICE MORE. But at least I was moving forward.

Practice more of a flying mount.
Practice T1 transition, especially getting wetsuit off.
Practice getting into shoes on bike.

Need to train more on the bike I guess. I am dissapointed with my bike time. I didn't like this course, but whatever... we were all riding on it. The corners and hill made me lose a lot of time b/c i suck at doing them (relative to others IMHO).

Put in more time on the bike. Learn to push it on the bike more. I'm still new to this cycling bit (started in January 2010)so I have a lot of room to grow I think

No real qualms about this transition. Maybe I could have shaved 3 seconds if I had practiced a bit more and was slightly more organized. But I was happy with this... although the next person in my AG did beat me by 4 secs... =) Every second counts!

Practice.

The run is my baby =)
Felt pretty good I guess. Not in the same pain like after Turner Valley. Took about 15 minutes to get my legs and then I managed to get into a groove and go faster.

Not sure... maybe more speed work, more bricks? I think I did fine.

Not my favourite bike/run. run course was on sidewalks which isn't fun, but i recognize as neccessary. Bike course I already commented on.