In the transition area I heard the announcer say this was a wetsuit-legal race, and I reflexively grabbed mine, but what I should have done was go check to see what the water felt like. I have a hard time believing this was wetsuit legal. The water was like a bathtub!! It was so hot. All I could think about during the swim was getting out and being able to cool off on the bike. I think this was a contributing factor to my poor performance during the swim. I also think this swim might have been a long 1500m, maybe closer to 2000m. If I remember correctly, my swim on the half ironman (2000m) was about the exact same time...for 500m more!!! Anyway, I take the results of this swim with a grain of salt.

Personally check the water temperature, not blindly trusting the announcer for water temperature.

I think this was one of my better transitions. I would still like it to be faster, but I'm not yet sure how to make this happen right now.

Good ride. Only passed by about 3 people, and I must have passed at least 20-30. I can really see the results in my bike training, but I am still finding myself not very high in the overall ranking on the bike segment. Frustrating, but maybe this will change throughout next season.

Pased by 1 person, and passed around 10. I expect not to have many more gains in running until I start to focus more diligently on this discipline. I should just try not to get frustrated by this fact in the meantime.

Run faster.

stopped running. I took a nap under one of the tents, and was awakened 40minutes later by several people standing over me asking if I was ok. Apparently they thought I wasn't breathing very much and I don't know what they were thinking, but I felt like they were getting ready to start CPR or something. Good thing I was easy to wake.


my slowness.