The lady starting the swim held me up for a minute or more letting things clear up in the congested pool. I'm not a pool drafter so this was great! I had no one to pass and felt like I had the place to myself. Should have gone faster with this being the case but I put in a hard effort and took 40 sec off my time from last year. Pretty uneventful swim overall. I do like the timing mat being placed right at the swim exit rather than half way to T1 liek some other races. It alows a better comparison to training swim times.

I focused on breathing more than completing my stroke and really getting a strong pull. Not sure why since in training it's been all pull focus and building form and strength. Not sure where my brain was. The whole clear water ahead of me thing may have caused me not to chase anyone and I might have gone harder with someone out in front. We'll never know...

Better surface in transition this year but it was so cramped. I got stuck running out behind two guys already in their bike shoes and they were being REAL dainty on the slick surface. I had no way to pass by them so finally yelled that they were killing me. This only slowed them down as they looked back to see who the A hole was. Deal with it. It is a race after all

I like this bike course but when wet it's not great. The volunteer support was way below average and the cops were there but several times were motioning to cars and I thought it was to me. I saw several people make wrong turns and ride thru cones that were supposed to mark our path. Last year did not seem so confusing.

With the conditions I couldn't have done much more but there was one time I lost focus and rode off the side of the road. I was lucky to not fall into the ditch.

Best running dismount to date but had some Garmin attachemnt issues

I planned on going easy on the run b/c of some ITB issues for the last month. This lasted about 20 yeards out of T2 where I decided to run to the pain and then ease up. To my surpise the pain never came so I kept running. There was some mud and and the volunteer support again was weak but this is a good run course I think. I had a great guy to pace off ahead of me and kept him in my sight the whole way. Unfortunately, the guy ahead of him was in my age group and he was gone after we hit the path the first time.

This was a 5k PR and my mile splits were all negative so not much to complain about other than the fact that I can always look back and say I could gone harder even though at the time it didn't seem possible. Overall rank of 47 means there are people out here who can run! I want to be one of them and need to keep improving myself here

Ran to transition to get warm clothes and hung out with the friscobob, jah, triZ, docshock and some new BT'ers I met - ziacyclist, davidb, jcagg. Looked around for Murphys but found nothing. Turns out biscuits and bacon replaced jockstrapping this morning. I thought Toads loved the rain.


The conditions were tough on the bike but cool weather on the run is always good for me so it probably balances out


It's clear that Dallas Athletes has better support and a lot more fun atmosphere. Jack Weiss isn't known to focus on fun which is fine but the vlounteer support here was not great. I think the weather contributed to the overall negative comments I was hearing out there but on a dry day I think this is a good race.