This was a good swim for me. I have been feeling good all year. I immediately passed 3 people and then set my aim on Richard. I passed him about 100 yards before the first buoy, then settled down into my pace. I passsed several more people and then the swim was through. I knew it was a long run to transition, so I made sure I just ran steady. I felt great.
I also knew that I wanted to get done quickly, because Richard would soon pass me on the bike. :)

Nothing. I left everything on the swim. My arms were tired when I finished, but my legs were fresh.

I could have sighted a little better but this was still very good.

This was about a minute faster than last year. Free time baby!!!

Check my helmet before the start. My helmet has two buttons that allow adjustment to the back locking fit thing. These had slipped and were tight, so I had to loosen it. Maybe 2 seconds?

We had a headwind going out, but it wasn't much. Felt pretty strong. Found a rider to play tag with. Got to the turn around and rode strong the whole way back. Passed a lot of people who started in front of me.

Richard passed me about 2 miles in and I only saw him about 1 mile from the turn around.

Nothing. I'm still working on gearing and hills with my tri bike. I still feel more comfortable climbing on my road bike, but the downhils and flats make up for that.

Good quick transition

Nothing

This is my 3rd race this year and all times had been below 25 minutes. I wanted to finish sub 24 and did that. I felt great for 90% of this run and don't think I could have been much faster (maybe 20 seconds based on pacing, but...

Nothing.

had some water, got some food (great smothered burritos) and hung out with some people I had met. Waited for the award ceremony with Richard and some others. Richard of course won his AG. And I got 3rd in mine.


Nothing this was a very well run race for me. I did exactly what planned and finished 5 minutes faster than last year. Unfortunately there were some very fast people in my age group this year. They beat me by 10 minutes.

What was strange, was both people in front of me must have passed me on the swim, so I never saw them the whole race. In fact I never saw anyone from my AG on the course. It would have been nice to see someone to chase. Instead I was constently trying to make sure I kept padding my lead on the rest of my AG. It worked, I think I had a very large time gap on the 4th place person.


This is a small race, but very well run. They have plenty of volunteers and the people that were at this race were great. I saw some old friends (from college), and made some new friends. Got to help some people doing their first tri.

It was also fun to hang with Dick Dime. Cool guy. And Ramone rocks.