I arrived on the beach about 45 seconds before the horne sounded for my wave so I did not get a chance to warm up at all. BIG Mistake (Mental Note: always, always, always, warm up before the swim)! I started out to fast and lost my breath quickly and I quickly transgressed into a modified breast stoke, then side stroke, then treading water and it took me well over 5 minutes to gain my composure. Once I got going again and got into a rythmn, things went fine, but I knew that I would never recover from the poor start so I decidedto relax and let it come to me.

Lets see.... Hummm? Maybe... WARM UP!

I was disappointed at my swim and that carried over into T1. I could not find the pull on my wetsuit and then proceeded to go through the transistion at a much more relaxed pace then normal.

Warm up before the swim. Not doing so puts me in a very bad mood.

I followed my worst swim ever with a respectable bike performance. I guess settling into a relaxed, no pressure attitude paid off as I felt pretty good through out.

I think that warming up a little before the start of the swim might have helped out here a little.

Came off of the bike very poorly. Was not focused and waited until I was stoped to dismount.

Kick a leg over while still in motion on the dismount.

Nice easy relaxed pace. Stopped very briefly to rehydrate when I probably should have just slowed a little. By this time I was just relaxing, joking around, and ttrying to encourage others.

Went pretty much straight from the finish to the mens room to relieve myself. Walked a little, drank a lot of GR and had a couple of pretty good quarter subs.


Did I mention that I did not warm up before the start of the swim?


Nice course, nice race, and well organized.