Didn't spit in goggles before I started, so had to stop twice to clean my lenses. Just totally forgot to do it. I felt I had a great swim, 10 mins faster than last years. I have def been swimming more in the pool, this year versus last year. Sighting I thought was pretty good, I have been training in the pool so its not totally new in Open water.
Ranked 81st/111

Train more in open water. Remember to affix my goggles and swim cap right, ohh and one small other thing. Not swim with my Wedding Ring, becuase now its at the bottem of the lake. In all the training swimming I have done I have never even felt it move let alone come off.

wow what a horrible time. I think I was so excited/shocked that I did so well for me on the swim that I just kinda slowed down in T1. I had everything layed out perfectly.


Get refocused on the task at hand. should start thinking about T1 on the run to it. going over in my mind what needs to be done.

Started off quite well, Got passed by a girl and as she passed she said this was the fastest part of the course, I quickly passed her back and never saw her again. Had a 16oz bottle of Gatorade and 20 oz bottle of water, still cold with ice in from freezing them half full the night before. I drank the whole gatorade bottle before race end. I drank maybe 10-12 oz of water and sprayed my head and back a few times with the last of it. With 4 miles left I didn't figure I would need anymore so I sprayed the rest of the water on me to not carry the weight.
I felt like my time should have been faster. I thought I was flying, I am kinda upset that I spend $3k for a bike and only beat last years time by 4 minutes.

Ate a Kids Cliff Bar like 13 miles into the ride. stayed in Aero the whole time.

Not drink so much, try to push a harder gear in the wind and uphills. You can't win a race by downshifting.

I came flying up to the dismount area, I passed like 2 people on bikes coming up to T2 coasting to get there. A man and women yelled for me to slow down, as If I couldn't see the big sign that said "Dismount Here" with a huge arrow.
Thought I had a great transition ranked 21st out of 111. I have Yanks as my shoelaces and Love em! had my race belt clipped through my visor so I just grabbed it and started running. Already had a GU in the belt.

Nothing.

Within .5 mile I started cramping, Knew I had drank too much. I remember hearing on a podcast to only drink like 16-20 oz per hour, and I had just drank at least 28. Pushed through it, you can see from my times getting slower the first 4 miles.
finally started feeling better, had a cup of water pretty much at start of run(mistake) then didnt drink again till mile 5. Kept taking waters and dumping on head.

Push faster starting a little earlier, didn't start pushing till about mile 5, I could have started a little sooner and maybe bumped up 3-5 places.

Grabbed a Propel, then noticed my wedding ring was gone. So I looked for that for 20 mins. Finally went to pavillon and grabbed a mini bagel w/ PB and went back to transition and gathered up stuff and left.


Lack of OWS training, drinking too much on the bike limited my running speed.