My wave started after the Athena/Clyde/Elite wave. I caught at least half of the wave ahead of me before the first bouy and lost some time on the swim trying to get around people that were treading water and clogging up the turns. Had to push hard at a couple points to try to get through some gaps.

I may had started a little fast, other than that with the swim being my strong suit I am happy with this.

I was having a problem getting my suit unzipped, so that cost me some time as I had to walk and try to really yank on the zipper to get it undone. Once I got is unzipped I got out of the suit quickly and got on with my business.

Not have the zipper stick.

I decided before the race that I was going to swim and bike hard and then take it easy on the run. Got up to speed on the bike and just started hammering. Started passing people and not getting passed. Saw mutri at the turn around and decided to keep hammering and try my damndest to catch him. Caught up to him around mile 9 or so and just kept the hammer down. Roads were really kinda decent until the last stretch where it was really bumpy.

Not much, I planned on hammering, so I did.

This was a little slower than I wanted, and I ran back to get my Garmin after I forgot it which is hindsight was idiotic.

Leave the Garmin, I don't think it cost me the AG win, but it would have cut the gap.

As I mentioned above the plan was to hammer the swim and bike and then take the run easy as I have Steelhead in 5 days. Well as I was coming in on the bike I realized that I was probably closer to lead than I have ever been before, so I decided to just run as hard as I could. If I would have know just how close I was I would have tried to puch even harder, but I am still happy with this time. I was passed by the guy that won my AG in the last 4-500 yards and just could not keep up with him.

Push harder had I know just how close to cracking top 3 overall and the top spot in my AG.

Walked around, talked to donks and others, ate some food and watched people finish and wait for the awards.


Not sure.


Couple of the things that were done my the race organizers were a little effed up in my opinion. Luckily I know the RD, so I will be chatting with him. I think it was too much to have the Super Sprint, Sprint, and Oly on the same day. It caused some problems on the bike and run course with people taking the wrong turns and accidentally cutting the course.