Pinehurst Triathlon - TriathlonOlympic

It was very foggy at the start, you could not see the first set of markers. There were people on surfboards that I could see, so I just made sure that they were on my left for the first few hundred yards. There were people swimming sideways looking for the markers, and I would swear that I saw someone swimming towards me at one pont. Once you got closer to the turn buoy it was clear.

Not much, my goal was to come out of the swim top 10 in my AG, after the last few races I've decided that for me the best way to go is all out, no swim the first third easy, build the second, etc. I don't seem to get that tired and when I try to pace myself I always seem to go too slow.

Good T1, no issues

I felt like I had a pretty good bike, I got passed by a couple of people in my age group, but I passed more that a few, mostly on the hills.
This was a bike PR on this course for me, my previous best bike was 1:14:06 in 2006

Not much, can't train on hills if you don't have them.

Nothing special, felt pretty good.

PR run for me on this course, first time I have broken 50 minutes. All in all a pretty decent run, my goal was not to walk at all, no matter how slow I had to go to keep running. I had some extra motivation, there were a couple of guys in my AG from our tri club and I knew that they were behind me.

Run more hills.

Went and sat in the lake for a while, not exactly an ice bath but it felt good. Gotta love the Milky Way bars after a race:)


Ran into Carol (Running in NC) before the race, she looked like she had a good race.
This was a PR race for me by about 7 minutes, most of that is the bike. Go figure, riding more makes you faster:)