This was by far the worst swim EVER for me. The water was so cloudy, that it was claustrophobic at the beginning. I was actually on the edge of quitting at the beginning. I totally forgot ALL stroke mechanics, and was just flailing around at first, and it totally wiped me out. I finally fell in to the groove, but was exhausted.

As an aside, I love fish, they are great on a platter, steamed with some lemon juice and butter sprinkled on top. But not fish water. I can still smell fish as I write this. That was the most foul tasting water that I have come across in a while.

Practice in a lake, where visibility is very limited.And then practice some more.

Note to self: unzip calf zippers before trying to get the suit off of your legs. I had to pull the suit back up to get to the zippers before I could get it off. After getting the suit off everything went very smooth.

One thing I did which really helped, was I brought a bucket. Took a 5 gallon bucket and cut off everything but the bottom 5 inches. I used that to was my feet off before I put on my shoes. It got rid of all the fine pebbles that I picked up in the transition area.

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Threw my chain just before the end. It was my fault, I was in the big chiain ring and was shifting up and basically twisted the chain off of the chain ring. Aside from that, I had a great ride.

Do some more riding to get my overall speed up. I know that will come in time with just riding.

There was a turn and a short downhill ride to the dismount line. You cannot see the dismount point until you are just about on top of it. As it turned out, there was about 5 of us tied up at the dimount point. Someone was taking their sweet time getting past the timing line and it was causing a bottleneck. So there was no riding with feet on top of shoes, jumping off of bike, etc. It was more like a slide to a stop before taking out everyone in front of you stop.

There was also a long run around the transition area to th bike run exit. You basically had a 100 yard sprint just to get out of the transition area

Nothing at all.

Nice run. Not much else to say about the run. Some of the neighbors had their sprinklers on for us so we could cool off.

Hill work.

Walked around for a good 20 minutes to cool down.


The swim. I need to repeat that to get in my thick skull, the swim.


Really fun race. My only complaint was that I wished they gave us some room at the finsh line to slow down from the run, before they were hounding us for the timing chips.