I was tired and feeling hungry when the swim started. I didn't get into the water until after 8:30 so that was a long time since breakfast and I had neglected to pack an Optimum bar to eat. Got passed by one person who then finished the swim WALKING. Damn, why bother to pass a swimmer if you're only going to effing WALK the pool? I didn't feel in my swim groove, didn't feel bad just no mojo. I think my fatigue was a hurdle for me here.

go sleep on the couch so the snoring, pagers and phones wouldn't bother me! Remember to pack NUTRITION even for a sprint!

9 seconds less in swim time from Shady Grove Power Sprint last year.

Transition run is relatively long behind the Y and into the parking lot. THere's a small piece of old carpet thrown down but you still feel the gravel under the mat.

move faster
14 seconds faster than last year

There's no comparing my bike this year to my first tri last season(same couse). Last year I was on a hybrid and it was pouring. I was DFL for the age group on the bike last year. Today was sweet. I felt shaky and was very glad I had packed a bottle of Heed on the bike. I drank that most of the ride. Kept a pretty good speed for most of it. Had a problem when I turned on to Ashland Rd, changed gears in the back ring and it felt like the chain slipped, like there was no chain on any ring. I tried back pedaling and it didn't feel like it had caught so I quickly hopped off to make sure things were okay back there since I was in no mood to wipe out. Played cat and mouse with one of the ladies from Tri Girls along this stretch of road. Started passing folks toward the end and met my goal time (yay) I think my bike split today was 18 minutes faster than when I did this course last year at Power Sprint. I'll take that any day!

Still need to get the fit adjusted more since it's still not quite high enough to turn the cranks when I go aero to be remotely comfortable

This was a huge improvement over Shady Grove Power Sprint last year...about 12 minutes worth!

I grabbed my water bottle from the bike which was hard to run with but I was glad to have it.

I never got past a slog with this run. I was slurping on the hammergel and water for most of the first part of the run but my lack of sleep and the heat were catching up to me. I know it was SLOW, but I kept running (if you can call it that for how slow it was). Once past the turn around I sporadically poured water from my water bottle on my head, neck and chest. OMG that felt good. It's didn't give me the push to kick up my pace any but it felt better.

It all starts with the lack of sleep last night compounded by my forgetting to grab the Optimum bar for my transition bag when I put stuff in last night.....

Hmmm, run time is about 1:55 slower, just felt like a slog...lost the time improvement on the bike to this...

Stood under a fan in the pavillion, finished my (warm) water. Chrissy, Susan, Kristen and I found each other and hung out. The Chipotle tacos were awesome. There wasn't anything else to drink but water but it was at least COLD so it tasted great!


Being overtired and hungry.


Set up events always does a great race! If I had felt better physically this would have been a terrific race for me. It wasn't craptastic, but I wouldn't say it was awesome.