Well I lack confidence in swimming and underestimated myself greatly. I can swim much better than my time dictates. I started in the back in fear of being too slow and being in the way. So I got stuck in a pack of back and breast strokers. When I could swim I felt good and had a good stroke but that was very shortlived. When I came out of the water someone yelled that I was in about 100th place out of 137.

Start towards the front and let people pass me if they can.

Being late to the race put me in about the crappiest spot in transition so I could have actually been even faster. Overall I thought this was a good T1 for my first ever. I didn't bother putting on a shirt just put on my shoes and helmet and ran my bike out.

Get to the race earlier and thus get a better rack spot.

I am not the greatest cyclist but the turnarounds gave people alot of trouble and I had to wait as they navigated them. This cost me some time. I kept a 25-26mph pace while riding but overall avg. killed by turnarounds

Nothing

Racked my bike, threw on my shoes (yanks help) shucked my helmet and ran off to my run.

Again closer rack spot.

Horrible run. I can bang out times better than this any day of the week in training. I just was ill prepared. Only did a few bricks and had zero practice running in deep soft sand. Though in my brick training I did do longer rides and runs I still felt horrible on this run.

Train more. Practice running in the heat and on sand.

Basically got my finishers medal, pulled off my shoes and went and laid down in the ocean for a minute or two before I was attacked by my children.


Lack of adequate training. I need to train in more race like conditions. Especially in regards to the heat.


Don't have much to compare to but I was happy with every aspect of this race. I would definitely do it again and may just do the mini again next year instead of the sprint to exact my revenge on a course that I should be able to do in about 25 minutes.