Never pushed, got stronger as I went. Finished feeling strong, never let HR get up too high

Went fine. Took a couple of extra sec putting on gloves, but it went smoothly

Tried to make sure I didn’t go out too hard. Felt really goo through the first 25, made the turn in just under 1:20 and was thrilled, thinking about a2:40 ride. Headwinds coming back in the whole way, and it started heating up. Made sure to drink a full bottle each hour at minimum, ended up downing 3 water bottles and 3/4 of a Gatorade botttle. Ate a PBN&J 40 min in, a gel at 1:20. I had taken 2 stroopwaffels too. I had opened their packages, put those in a ziplock bag, but apparently didn’t seal the ziplock all the way. When I went to have one 2 hrs into the bike, I pulled out the bag and it was full of lake water. Therefore, the Gatorade was all the calories I had in the last hour,but I still felt pretty good getting off the bike. Still averaged over 20mph, so I was pleased

Seal the ziplock bag.

Sat down, put on socks, kept HR down. Not bad

This was horrible. I was hoping to run sub 1:55, and felt pretty good getting off the bike. Was planning on starting at 9:00 pace, and speeding up as I got into it. I just never felt good. It was 90 deg by the time we started the run which didn’t help. By Mile 6, both claves were on the edge of cramping, couldn’t push off on the flats/ups, and couldn’t land on my toes going downhill without cramping. The entire last loop was running to the next light post, then walking to the next one. Alternated that for 100yd lengths the whole way in.

Not run in 90 deg heat having not trained in it very mich

Stretched four about 2 min, and headed to the car for the long drive home


Heat, lack of run training


Once again, Kevin was late getting started. First swimmer was 10 min late getting in the water. Bike course had a lot of volunteers, but they faded on the way back in. There was a single lane railroad crossing and when I came back in, there was a bus parked on the tracks, talking to the volunteer, blocking the entire road. There was another intersection with no volunteer on the way back in, and I missed the turn. Luckily I realized it within a block and got back on course. Run course was fine with a lot of water stops, thank goodness. There was NO post race activities. I was handed a bottle of water and a finishers award. I never saw any tables of prepackaged food, there was nobody pointing finishers where to go. After racing for 5+ hrs, it woudve been nice to have sings pointing to a food tent, or a volunteer pointing us in that direction. This was very similar to his last race, though - late, with minimal amenities. And crappy shirts and medals at both races too.