Lone Star Triathlon Festival - Quarter - TriathlonOlympic

Gun went off and away I went - I hung back to the left of the pack and did a poor job of sighting - I did the HRTC pre-race swim and felt good, ubt got bad info as the bouys were in different positions from the practice. Only got bumped a few times - the wetsuit helped tremendously as I am not a strong swimmer. When the wind shifted and we swam into the waves with the wind from the west I felt a little beat up, but I did OK. My worst part was navigating.

Practice open water swimming more often and race the race - not blindly following someone else as I tried to do this time.

Good T1 - I needed a minute to get my legs under me coming out of the water as I stumbled up the ramp.

Practice transitioning better, I was really not sure footed coming out of the water.

It was a tough slog into the wind and not what I expected - the forecast called for the wind out of the east, not the west! Goes to show you - never trust a forecaster on raceday. Got passed on the first 14 miles a lot, but made up for it once I had the wind. Kept good and aero tuck - my back is paying for it this week!

Check my electronics in transition - my speeometer magnet fell off in T1 and I had a hard go without being able to judge my speed.

Had some difficulty getting my socks on after the bike - feet were dry, just noticed that I had put a pebble into my left heel and it hurt like the dickens. I was so hyped up after a good bike though that I barely noticed it until later.

Make sure there are no gu packets in my shoes. Yeah - that could have been messy.

I thought I was cramping until I noticed the pink blotch out of my left shoe. Not good, but not that bad. I wrapped my headsweat around it and kept going. That pebble did more damage than I thought. I could not get up to pace and ended up brgaining with my self to just make it to this stop sign, or that aid station. Still - no bad cramps - I had put the mileage in, was just hurting.

Do more bricks.

Walked around - kissed my wife - saw my friend Chris and stretched a little.


Bad navigation on the swim and an ugly run performance. Ultimately need to lose more lb's and that will help all the way around.


Overall a great race on a great venue. Plenty of volunteers and lots of support.