I like the straight shot. I accidentally put in the wrong time by a factor of 2 so I had a lot of passing to do. It was pretty easy to accomplish as it was a straight shot but pretty wide open. Easy to navigate off of left side (ie. relative to shore).

This was a long transition as you had to climb a series of stairs, then run through their expo area, across street to big transition area. So the commute took a while. I still have a problem with my speed suit zipper sticking after a swim. I was able to get it down enough to get out.

Clearly the bike is my weakest on a relative basis and where I need to focus. I tend to get passed by stronger riders on the climbs but pass them back on descents. I really need to work on my hill climbing. It began to rain on the return portion of the race. When I say rain, I mean downpour. At one point, I was doing 41 miles per hour in a heavy big drop rain that you could barely open your eyes to watch the road. I guess you die at 20 mph or 40 mph so go for it.

Train more for hills.

This actually wasn't too bad of a transition given that I have taken the same amount of time in much smaller transitions. I will say that the next time someone wants to talk to a friend cheering them on in the entry shoot, I will push them into next week.

not much. Maybe cover my stuff so it wont be fully soaked.

NOt bad although I want to get to a 7:00 to 7;10 pace for Portland.

Push the pace a little harder.

Stretch, have the provided beer(s)


the rain may have held me back. Lack of training on bike and running.


This is a fun race that has some good challenge to it. It is really well attended and the post race is great (ok they offered beer). Not only that, this race is full of good karma folks. When I came down the final hill to the finish, I was going full on kenyan style. I lost my glasses out of my tri pocket at some point on the sprint, but didn't notice until about 10 minutes after I finished. I looked around but no real luck. I started to walk the course when a volunteer found me and gave me the glasses I dropped was up the course. She came all the way down, tracked me down and gave them back to me. I hope that she gets an awesome karma prize over the next week. She deserves it!

My goal was to qualify for the AG Nationals. I needed top 33% in AG for this race. I got it so I am very happy. Portland, here I come.