Your race was was a little stressful, not knowing if your wife would make it and lack of mental preparation may very well be part of your lack of satisfaction with your performance.  All in all, looking at the results posted, you seemed to place just fine in your AG for the individual disciplines.

Keep pounding the pavement and you'll make all kinds of gains heading into next season.  Also, that Garmin 305 will really help you learn where to put your efforts in the bike and run.  Finding those places can be difficult, as we discussed yesterday, but once you know your "burnout" range you can race faster by proper pacing.

Glad you got to race Matt.

Can't say why (or even if) your run was bad.  But I do believe generally that the difference between a person's stand-alone running, and their running in a triathlon is determined primarily by their biking fitness.

So if a 9m pace is generally pretty easy for you, but you can't hold that in a tri, then at the top of the list of suspects would be your cycling conditioning.

The best thing is that you got to race this weekend.  Big kudos go out to your wife!

Given the hectic nature of the lead up to this race, that's a solid performance.  I don't think you can underestimate how much havoc not knowing you were racing until so late can play on your body.

Actually having raced makes it a great day.  Like Dirk says, knowing where to expend your energy is the key as even a sprint is definitely an endurance event.  Only in triathlon is an hour and a half event called a sprint.  Good job.