The day turned out pretty nice, not at all like the stormy weather some people were talking about. I didn’t really warm-up. I kept changing my mind as to doing a warm-up swim or run. In the end I didn’t do either. I guess I was too nervous. I have officially gotten over my hesitation with swimsuits. They are awesome and I’ll always wear one when I can. It was great that when I ran out of breath I could simply flip on my back and do the back-stroke. I did this for most of the last third of the swim and was still able to keep in position. I really need to try and get more open swim in. It is so different from the pool.

Need to get more open water swim training. I think I am starting out too fast because after the half-way-point I had difficulty breathing. I did most of the last halg doing the back-stroke. I also needd to make sure I dont skip on the warm-up

Having a stripper was good they had the suit off in less than 10 seconds. The rest transition was slow though. I don’t recall having a big problem with anything specific. I was just slow here. This would be a spot where I can make a significant improvement pretty easily by getting some proper instruction. I missed the transition seminar and really paid for it here.


no sure yet. I need to take a T1 class so I can learn to be more efficent.

My first race with a true Tri-bike. I had a blast here. There wasn’t as much wind as there could have been. It was cool passing bike after bike. I even managed to pass a couple of tri-bikes. I only was passed twice. My biggest issue was trying to get my energy gel down. I had decided to mix a couple of them in my water and drink in continuously. I drank as much as I could but I couldn’t get much down before starting to feel bloated. During the last part I hit some bumps and the yellow net thing on my aero-bottle flew out. I got most of my water thrown in my face after that. (no one turned it in so I hope I can get another one) I think next I’ll try eating those Cliff Bar Shot Blocks instead and just keep plain water in my bottle. Maybe it will be easier that way.

Considering I have yet to buy clip-in shoes/petals I did really well.

Clip-in petals are a MUST.

During the last 250 meter or so I got grouped in with about 5-6 other bikes I didn’t know if I could pass here. I just followed them in and I think I may have lost a few seconds there. Other than that this transition was pretty uneventful.

Not sure.

My legs felt very wobbly coming out of transition. I don’t know if this was because I pushed myself too hard on the bike or from not getting my energy drink down. But I wasn’t able to get a good stride going until 1.5-2 miles into the run. After that I felt pretty good. I used pretty much everything I had. Down the stretch I didn’t have much left for a finish burst. Got passed by the girl winner about 250 meters before the finish, which was kind of cool.

Not sure. As compared to the other athletes this was my worst event, but my time was pretty good for me. I think more training and more speed training would help. I nee to get faster.

Some stretching at the fence, talking to other athletes and having a beer.


bad T1, I faded in the run, by lack of training or just running out of energy I'm not sure