Decent swim. The guy behind me caught up to me right before the ladder but due to the backup getting out of the pool he couldn't pass me. So in that respect I still have yet to be passed in the swim portion. Bike and run though are entirely different stories.

I still think I have a lot of time to drop here as I really haven't been concentrating on my swim as much as I would like. I am going to stick to my current training plan for the next 4 weeks then up the distance to get more of a workout in.

More pool workouts in my training schedule.

I got my shirt and shoes on pretty quickly but fumbled around with my gloves and helmet. I wound up sticking my gloves in my mouth and trying to put them on while riding. Looking back at it, for a sprint I don't think I will use the gloves next time as I don't think they are all that necessary for this short of a distance plus.

Leave the gloves in the bag. I also want to get tri shoes where I can ride without socks to save some time as well.

I changed the distance to 12.64 since that is what my bike computer showed. I dropped 2-minutes off my time from the Monster Tri in October but I still have a lot of room to improve. Stayed on the big ring most of the race which was something I wanted to do. I did loose my chain on the first loop coming down the first hill on Davis but was able to pedal slowly and get it to jump back on the big ring. When you're good, you're good. Overall my bike pace was pretty consistent with what I usually do, although that isn't nearly as good as I want it to be. I ALMOST hit 17MPH average for this race which would have achieved one of my 2008 goals.

More bike time.

I think I got through T2 pretty well. If I can get some biking and running shoes where I don't have to wear socks I think it might help some.

Not really anything. For me, I got through this one pretty quickly.

I'm getting better with my running. I improved over the Monster Tri from October by about a minute. It was weird, at the end I felt like I could have kept going, I just couldn't make myself go any faster though.

I tried to pick up the pace at the water station but if it did improve it couldn't have been by much. I think if I just keep with my running training the time will continue to come down. If it comes down slowly I'm fine with that. I never was much of a runner anyway so I'll take any improvement I can get.

I had two pancakes and waited for Jonathan to finish while talking to other BTr's. When he was done I went back and had two more pancakes. After that I washed it down with coffee and more pancakes. Did I mention I liked the pancakes?
We got finisher medals which I thought was a nice touch, especially since my time is far from getting me to the podium just yet.


The bike definitely leaves me room to improve as does the run to some degree. If I can just get to the 18-20MPH range I think my time will really improve.