I felt in total control this swim, and despite the fact that I crossed the field on the outward leg and had to swim back to the buoy, I think I PRd the swim. I drafted as planned, but hated it when my draftee pulled up to breaststroke and I had to go around his legs. I also turned strong and navigated straight on the backstretch and on the homeward leg. I did wind up beating a guy in the head several times as he strayed too close to my right side recovery and I kept backhanding him upside the back of his head. It wasn't on purpose - he was just too close. After 4 or 5 strikes, he disappeared, only to grasp at my toes. I kicked free and left him.

Swim further on first breath at the start to clear some choppy water; navigate better on the first leg.

Good transition and I was surprised to see that I was 7th overall in AG.

run faster up the sidewalk?

I really tried to stay under a specific HR, except on climbs. I accomplished this goal and felt great about the ride. I didn't expect to exceed 20 mph with the HR limits.

This was a good ride. Learn from it.

pretty quick, but I slipped to 13th in AG

practice, I guess.

I set up to stay in a HR zone but quickly found out that I'd set it too low for race conditions. I turned off the incessant beeping on the Garmin and settled in to a pace and HR I was comfortable with.

I could have pushed harder, but this was a training race for the longer ones coming up in the fall.

drinking the free stuff and meeting up with BTers Sue and Reagan while waiting and watching Jill, Steve, Marci, Andy and my soccer/tri-buddy Ben finish the Sprint and Craig finish the Oly.


myself. I was practicing HR zones.


I wasn't going to Disco this year, but when Ben signed up and I started swim training, I decided to do it. Glad I did.