Felt great the entire swim. Never felt as though I was killing it but I knew I was swimming hard. Everything worked as it should (sighting, breating, wetsuit, etc.) Started with the chaos and it was not bad (I'm pretty good at holding my own in the water). Drafted off some feet for 400 of the 650 yards. I was 9:35 out of the water with a 1:00 run to T1. That's a 1:27/100 pace. KICK ASS! I think Susan kicking my ass the pool is kinda working.

5th out of the water in AG and 25th out of the water overall.

Nothing.

HR very high coming out of water. Wetsuit coming off was as expected. No issues with top but a little slow getting the ankles off. Everything was great coming immediatly out of T1.

14th fastest t1 overall and 4th in AG.

Swim plus T1 put me at 21 overall and 2nd in my AG.

Coming out of T1, my HR was sky high. Garmin said Zone 6. Took 2 miles to settle in. Also, could not get feet into shoes. Normally, I have no issues. Maybe I need to bodyglide the inside of my shoes.

Otherwise, for the most part, I laid down the hammer. Brett caught me at mile 9 which made me refocus and put a little more effort in. He passed me then I passed him and left t2 first.

I was so busy passing Brett that I almost forgot to take my feet out of my shoes and how to dismount. Running dismount worked great (once I remembered what I was doing).

63th fastest bike overall and 14th in AG.

Cumulative time after bike put me at 38th overall and 8th in my AG.

Only issue was that I have to rack my bike on the back of the seat which means I have to turn it around. I think in T2, I'll start racking it on the handlebars. Otherwise, everything went as planned.

94th fastest t2 overall and 18th in AG.

Cumulative time after t2 put me at 36th overall and 8th in my AG.

Brett caught me at 1/4 mile out of t1. I'm not where he is with running so I let him go but tried to move as fast as I could.

Took a small bit of water at the first aid station. Mile 2 felt ALL uphill and was my slowest mile.

96th fastest run overall and 21st in AG.

Cumulative time after run put me at 49th overall and 11th in my AG.

Saw Kirk ahead and tried to catch him in the last 1.5 miles but he was out of reach.

Finally, PR on my 5K time. Booyah!

Looking at my cummulative placings, last year my best events were swimming, running and biking. Just based on these results, my best events are swimming, biking and running. I know Brett knows that my running needs work and we talked about that this weekend.

Cheering other folks on. This is always the best part of the race.


Tri The Parks does an awesome job and Tanner did not dissapoint. Great season opener race.