I think I've swam once in the past two months, so I'm pretty happy with how the swim went. Felt pretty good and pushed it on the last 100m to get in front of a huge group headed towards the ladder.

Swim more in training.

So slow! I did stop to throw on some socks mainly because I haven't practiced running without socks and I was scared of blisters. Also they changed the course to make sure you had to run all the way around transition so everyone covered the same distance carrying their bikes.

I think I could have pushed the bike a little harder. The Garmin said I averaged 20.8mph and that's with running it around in transition. The race website says 20.0mph so something wasn't measured accurately at some point, and I doubt my Garmin is wrong...

More miles.

Should have been under a minute with this but my hands were shaking and a bit numb from the cold on the bike.

I didn't take any water on the course and felt fine. The only trouble I had was some stomach issues about a mile in (needed to hit a port-o-john) so I ended up walking for a good 100 yards or so to let that settle down and then couldn't really push the pace after that. I easily should have been under 24min for this as my legs felt great and my breathing/cardio wasn't stressed at all.

Better pre-race diet. Time to start putting in the miles over the winter, need to get faster if I want to start moving up in the placings at these short races with guys running consistent sub 20's.

Hit the port-o-john and then had a powerade and a pancake and watched other people finish.


See the run section (and lack of training duh).


Real fun end of season race and the first tri I ever competed in four years ago. Hopefully I'll make it back again next year.