I swam as straight as I have in a long time. I have a tendency to go crooked when I try to swim fast. So my goal was to relax and swim straight. Expected 10 minutes so there was a little current helping us

Maybe push a little harder. But I wanted to swim straight.

Passed 4 people on the ramp and running out of T1.

Learn to have shoes on bike and run through T1 in bare feet instead of bike shoes. Thought about doing that, but thought better of it sense I have never done it before.

Hills are not my specialty. Did Eagleman aquabike two weeks ago. Used 2 or maybe 3 gears for whole race. Today used ever single gear and several times from one end of chain ring to the other in half mile. Passed and got passed by the one guy in my AG (John I think) at least 12 times. He beat me up hills and I got him going down every time. Big hill at turnaround was 6 mph going up and 43 coming down. I was expecting it to be a little faster, but that was fast enough. When we turned off big road back down to finish line, I decided to really hammer it to race my AG buddy. He had me by about 100 yards when we turned. I put it big gear and hammered as hard as I could. Hit 36 mph and I guess I surprised him. I looked back with about 100 yards to go and he was not there. Good news.

Not much I could do training wise. Just not any hills where I live. Thanks to John had a great ride. Faster than I thought I could do in the hills.

Not much. 10 minutes afterwards did not feel like I had raced. I guess without the run, recovery is much easier.


Lack of hill training.


Only 2 suggestions. Mark directions to swim start and rack Aquabikers on left side of transition. We had to cross the runners going out. More of a pain for them than us.
I will definitely race this again if they have AB nationals here again.