I not that great of a swimmer and since this was my longest open water swim to date, I just took it easy and kept my breathing regular. My navigation was pretty good and I didn't have to sight too often.

I need to get some swim coaching my swim is the weakest part of every race so far.

Pretty good transition. I went without socks on the bike and that helped my T1 quite a bit

Maybe learn how to get into my shoes after I'm already on the bike.

This was my first race with my new bike, and it was awesome except for one thing that was completely my fault. My chain fell off just after T1 as soon as I shifted up to the big chain ring, so that hurt my time 30-60sec. Moral of the story don't make an adjustment to you bike on the trainer without trying it out on the road afterword.

The only bad thing about having a new bike it I won't be that guy that does really well for racing on a mountain bike anymore. ;)

Make sure my bike is adjusted so my chain doesn't fall off. :)

This is where my race took a total nose dive.
Everything went well in T2 up to the point that I ran off with my helmut on and without my number strap.

Not be an idiot.

The run started off pretty badly with me realizing I still had on my helmut and that I was sans number strap just after I had left the transition area, then wasting another 30-60 seconds trying to figure out what to do.

Once again not be an idiot. It cost me a minute penalty and another 30 to 60 seconds milling around in confusion.

A little stretching while watching


I think I was a little over confident since this was my third race and I thought I had it down, so I wasn't concentrating on what I was doing in T2 and this cost me at least 1 1/2 minutes.


I was really pleased with my physical effort especially on the bike, and the swim went better than I expected, but I was really disapointed in my brain fade in T2.