Drafting was BAD since I did not have anyone to draft. I had the fastest swim time for the whole race today. Felt awesome and supper good with very good tempo.

Nothing. Just wish this new course management company new what they were doing when they set up a swim course. It deffinitively was longer by quiete a lot.

Transition felt pretty good. Had a long jog from water, up boat ramp, and then to the bike transition. My stuff was in the second rack from the front, so long way from swim. But got all stuff on pretty good. Just need to run through whole transition instead of walking. Looking with other transitions time, could of been about another 45sec faster. Need to practice swim/bike transitions.

Practice swim/bike transitions with running jump starts to bike. Never have done that before since getting back into it.

Felt really good on the bike course, but also felt like the pavement was grabbing my tires. I would definitively inflate my tires from 105 to 120 for this course. I rather feel more bumpy than feel like the road is sucking me down into it. Felt weird, but could tell it slowed me down.
Quiete a few turns that were really tight, and had to slow down considerably. So a lot of slow and go which forced me to practice on accelerations during this course.

Inflate tires differently, and continue training with hills. I have to say that I will not be able to run away from them. Practive surges for acceleration to improve on thsi course.

They did not have a transition time for this part, and appears that this transition was added to the run time. So the run time will appear to be slower than actual time.
Also, when I took feet off shoes to ride in, kept flipping the shoes and just could not focus on riding in with feet on top. Lost some time there. But got off the bike while it was moving, so that part of the transition worked really well.
I got lost and just couldn't find my bike rack. uugggghhh!! Frustrated with that time lost there.

Practice this transition more, and make sure I remember where the hell!!! I was at. With bike there, easier than looking for running shoes barried in the mess.

Run felt pretty good overall. HR was sticking right around 152-158 during that portion. Felt really good. I did walk through each water stops to collect 2 cups. One to cool down and the other to drink. My lips started to feel dry on the way back for the run, but felt good overall.

Time above also includes the T2 transition, which I know was not that good.

Need to practice running and get a running coach. Running about 1 hour a week is just not enough for this. But need to remember that I have been concentrating on the swim/bike and not running. Finish this month with same, then start running for the IMAZ in November.

Walked around, then headed back into the Lake to cool down just with my tri-suit on. Water was really cold without a wetsuit, but felt awesome on my legs and upper body. Swam around in the water for about 5min to cool down. Felt really good. Then ate some Soy Joy bar's, banana's, apples, and lots of water.


Have a very defficient running background, and need to spend more time running. I still have to learn to love running. Also continue loosing all that fat around my waist, and finish loosing the weight that I have started. Now down from 304 to 210 lbs, but need to get down to 186lbs for optimum weight if not less. Makes it easier to climb when weight is low.


Post race was very little, just food and water in the finish shute. Not much else. Of course, been that I see some much higher caliber races around Vegas and California, my standards are pretty high overall. Mainly disapointed they don't use the same tools that we have for setting up swim course. That was my biggest disapointment.

Biggest item about this race overall, is that my final time was only 20min slower than the first place athlete, so that also prooves that he was on a longer swim course. He was about 15 - 18min slower than his normal course. Typical swim is 1500m, 40k bike and 10k bike. Here the swim and bike were longer. Fun race, and penalty's of course length applied to everyone. So it was still an awesome race in that perspective. I would do it again next year.