I found the every 5 second start kinda interesting.

Listen to my self. Use the first 50-100 to get in the groove and then hit it.

I went up the ladder in the pool instead of doing the manly thing and hopping up because I WAS TIRED. I walked out of the building and when I saw the crowd and felt the cold I started running, (acting like I have done this 100 times before) Made it to my bike, rolled on my socks (no problems) put on my Tri-Shirt (kinda hard since I was wet) through on a long sleeve shirt since it was cold, put my Halo on, helmet sunglasses and took off with my bike. I had my shoes on the pedals and hit the mount perfectly.

Probably, at least a slow trot right out of the pool. Maybe even try the manly hop out of it.

I was on and going in no time. My wife and I had purchased new bikes and mine had 70 miles on it and it was, to date, the best purchase I have made in my new TriLife.The bummer part was that my cadence thing wasn't working so I just went. I passed quite a few people here. Maxed at 28 mph so I kept a fairly even pace through out. The bike part was the most fun out of all of them.

Do some bike specific workouts as opposed to just riding.

The T-2 time is included in the run time, so I am not so sure on how I did. I definately messed up the part of taking my feet out of my shoes and riding to the dismount. However, it gave the crowd something to snicker about. Ha, Ha on me. Ran with the bike to my rack, racked it, slipped on my shoes, took off my helmet and pulled off my long sleeve shirt. That all went fairly fast, but since I have a calf injury I had to wrap a splint thing around it which took a little additional time.

Skip the calf wrap (if I wasn't injured) and concentrate more on my dis mount.

I am a runner and this was by far my worst performance ever due to my injury. I had an MRI done on Friday but the results have not came back yet so no one said not to do it, therefore I did it and boy did it hurt. Enough whining. If I was healthy, this would of been a very nice course and I would have put up a fast time due to the perfect weather conditions and the adrenaline of knowing I am about to become a Triathlete. That in itself is what got me through the run.

Not be injured and work on stretching out my calf while on the bike.

I actually did no warm down either. What a day....No warm up, race and no warm down. Thats weird. I put my ankle band in the red bucket and cheered for the other finishers.


My calf injury


For my first triathlon, this was Da Bomb. I absolutely loved it and am looking forward to competeing in many more. Winning the newbie award for my age group was also special. The best part.......Cheering my wife on to her first Tri finish.