I am a terrible swimmer and I don't think that I helped myself by putting in a hard session in the pool on Friday. But hopefully this will get me ready for next weekends West Point Tri

Get swim lessons

Fast transition but not the fastest...

Run out of the TA faster

As usual I hammer the bike to make up for my lost time on the swim. By mile 10 or 11 I was 3rd Overall on the bike. I kept seeing the 2nd place guy ahead of me crest the hills but still remain out of reach. I knew that I would be able to pass him on the run if I came into transition within 30 seconds of him, which I did. My bike has a compact crank, which for this race I think I could have used a standard because I was spinning out on some of the extended downhills.

I got out of my shoes too early so I road the last half mile shoeless... oh well, I dont think it actually hurt my placing. My run shoes are hard to get on fast so I know that cost me a few seconds in transition... still probably do anything to my placing overall but it may in the future.

Think about getting Zoots or something easier to get into.

This was a decent run, but I definitely could have ran faster. I passed the 2nd place guy shortly after transition, did not see anyone on the run until mile 2 when the lead guy was coming back from the turn around, he was flying but I still thought that maybe I would be able to catch him until I got to the turnaround. I realized that I was too far back so I let off on the pace. As it turned out, I placed 3rd overall (which I am perfectly happy with) because a guy in the wave after me beat me. Even if he was in my wave I doubt I would have beat him though.

I ran all right, I think if I would have dug in deeper I could have pulled out a faster run but overall I was happy with it.

I went for a cool down jog after and then sat on the beach with the fiance until the awards.


This was a great race, the logistics were perfect, awesome volunteers, nice swimming area and beach, pretty bike and fair run.