Swim a went OK. Navigated much better than last time. I had to pee though, and couldn’t do so without just stopping and treading water. had to go twice! Overall, felt like I never pushed, was only 17 sec off my goal, and stopped twice. Not too bad

Pee before the start. I had gone when I warmed up, but then had over an hour before starting. Shoulld’ve gone again.

T1 went well. No major issues. got the swimskin off pretty easily

Nothing

Ride went pretty well. The road was horrible. Lots of potholes and large seams which made it hard to get in a rhythm.

Nothing. Felt like I rode well. My GPS said I averaged 21.3mph and was a little over 16.5 miles. Normalized power was 223, right at 80% FTW. I could've pushed a little harder, but wanted to save a little for the run

No p[roblems in T2. No socks for a short 4 mile run

Run went pretty welll. As soon as I got off the bike, I had to pee again. I thought it would pass, but after about a 1/3 mile, I knew I needed to stop. I pulled off into the woods and must’ve peed a liter. Took at least 30 sec. felt much better afterwards and kept a solid pace, walking for a few seconds ate each water stop, but otherwise kept it steady.

Npthing

Drank some Gatorade, and rode the 2 miles back home


Needing to pee the whole way


Race started at 6:30. They didn’t announce that all of the women would start first and that the men wouldn’t start until the women were out of the water. Men didn’t start unti l7:35 or so. They asked everyone to line up numerically, but no one did so. I finally got in about 745.