Ahhh.. the swim. The biggest challenge for me. I am intrigued because this, more than any other event requires the best strategy. The water was a flat calm, and thoroughly disgusting. I did a warm up out to a large bouy and the second I put my face in the water, I could litterally taste the murkiness of the lake. Prior to the start, I seeded myself toward the back of the group. Being a 15 min 600 meter swimmer, I thought this was appropriate. I was wrong. The ENTIRE swim I found myself dodging and avoiding slower swimmers in my age group and the age group ahead. It was a traffic jam out there.

The race sent out the waves every two min instead of three. I found this to be a problem because of the traffic it created out there. Next time, I will seed myself in the front half.. closer to the middle. I also simply need to improve my swimming and get faster.

This went well. I did the no socks thing and there was no problem. I recommend it at this distance, but would test it first. My feet did not blister at all, but others did.

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I was happy with this overall. My bike (Felt S25) is very comfortable for me and I am very satisfied with it. As a fairly new biker, I was satisfied with my time.

Get better on the bike overall. Get faster.

T2 timing was missed for all athletes in this race. That's a shame because I really screwed this one up. Went down the wrong row to my transition area. The rows were long with no breaks. I had to run under a pole and got my bike stuck. Had to back out, then do it again. Pure disaster. Once at my spot, I was ok, but slow in tying my shoes. I need to look into fast lace techniques.

All of it. I need to think T2 out more during prerace and set up mental markers to remember where my transition is.

I ran well. Because T2 times were included in this portion, I am pretty confident I ran a low 24:xx 5k. My T2 was at LEAST a 1:30. Probably closer to 2:00+ I was happy with my run. No stopping, steady pace. Was trying to catch the rabbit, but no luck there.

Nothing. Catch the rabbit maybe.

Drank water, stood around and cheered the rest of my group of friends in. Met a few BT'ers. Very nice people.


By midnight after the run, I came down with the beginning of a cold. Not sure if this had any effect on my race. I felt ok at race time.


Tri the parks is a great series here in Ga. I highly recommend the series to anyone who can do one, some, or even all of the races. I'd like to see some better breakdown of times, such as bike pace, and event place # within age group.
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