First of all, it would have been 1/2 way brilliant to actually figure out my new sports watch BEFORE the gun went off. As it was, I couldn't get the timer started. So, swim time is probably not exactly accurate, but hey, I survived.

Start was really good, in the middle of the group - no one was giving way but there wasn't any deliberate pushing/shoving either, just too many people trying to swim in the same water. Once it spread out a bit, looked for some feet. Found a good pair, but too slow, jumped onto someone else, who thought it was a great plan to swim fast for 5 strokes and then breast stroke for 2 strokes to see where she was going. That was frustrating. Tried to latch onto someone else, but she was going too fast, so ended up most of the swim on my own. Except for the irritating Breast Stroke Women. I swear they were a club. Learn how to SIGHT people!

Swim was ok, but not stellar.

Find better FEET! Haven't really been swimming enough to do a solid 1/2 mile effort, felt I was slower than I could have been.

Estimate, cause here was where I figured out how to work the watch. A little longer than I wanted but not bad. I don't run through transition, and I'm always a little shaky after the swim (balance issues) so not too bad.

Get tougher feet, so I can run on asphalt with no pain.

Really good bike for me. I passed a lot of people, which usually doesn't happen. About 2 mph faster than I've ever been on this course. I felt strong all the way through, although I probably needed to drink more. The day was very cool for July though, low 90's when usually it's 100+, so that helped a lot.

The true test would be the Olympic distance, cause the Sprint - there's fewer fast people. I was hoping for a bit faster time, but I did slow down a lot spinning up a couple of the hills and especially the last one coming back into transition.

I felt strong the whole bike. To be honest, I've lost weight, and I felt a definite difference on the uphills.

Nothing. Good as I could do given training time.

I hate T2. I can never seem to get myself organized and I can't ever remember what I'm doing.

Figure out a way to be less scattered!

It was really nice that it was cooler than usual. BUT I did NOT push as hard as I could have. I was tired and I just couldn't get going. So, not a bad run, in fact, 15 min miles is definitely a respectable pace for me, but I could have done better if I had suffered a little more.

I just kind of ran out of steam, especially on the uphills. It's a rolling course, not much flat at all, the uphills are steep but short, and I didn't manage to run any of them.

Well, should have trained more.

Met Sparky from the forums, that was fun. Slowly gathered up my stuff and headed back to my car, went and got an iced mocha which was amazing and headed home.


Training time. Weight as well - although since I've lost quite a bit this year I can really tell a difference cause I'm not hauling around as much poundage.


Well organized, well run. They've put this race on 3x a year for quite a while and it shows. It runs like clockwork.