Best swim I've had in a long time. Able to draft a bit, sighted well, and stayed relaxed.

Wouldn't change much - could have pushed a bit harder, rounded buoys a bit less widely. Most obvious would be to not swim in new wetsuit for the first time in a race (I know, I know), but I got lucky there. The new one has my 17 year old hand me down beat by a long shot.

One heel got stuck a bit, but not bad. The suit, which I had not practiced getting out of, came off much more easily than I had expected. Only other real glitch was my right sock - I put it on upside down - heel side up. Cost me a few seconds to figure that out and switch if around. Had some trouble clipping into pedals as well. Usually don't, but today I did.

I'd like to go without socks, but I get blisters on the run - my feet bled a fair amount the last time I tried it. Just not there yet on that. Couldn't jump onto bike because of decent uphill right out of transition. I haven't practiced that skill very much anyway, but sharp right hand turn right out of T1 and immediate mounting area uphill would have made that next to impossible!

Hilly course - and I didn't have much to give them, or so it felt. I brought a couple of gels and the first one didn't open and then it broke open all over my right hand and made a sticky mess of that hand, my face and the right brake hood. Nasty.

Get a better preview of course prior to the race. I should have tried to drive it. Unfortunately that takes time which I probably can't afford from a family standpoint. Just need to ride more. I can do better, and this is my goal for next season, to ocnsistently average above 20 mph on bike in all my races.

Again, route into transition was kind if abrupt - I wasn't familiar enough with course to know when to get my feet out of the shoes and so I didn't. Things were pretty muddy, so who knows what kind of a mess I would have made of my fee if I had tried. Downhill to dismount area made a jump off of teh bike next to impossible, and I really don't have that skill at this point anyway.

Get feet out of shoes, learn to jump off bike, be more familiar with course and T1/2 area layouts.

Rolling hills without mile markers. I really like the mile markers to get some idea of pace, should I push harder or not. Caught a couple of olympic distance racers, got passed by 1. The fun really began when the long course joined back up with the sprint course. Lots of people to pick off at that point. Only took water at halfway point but that worked out fine.

Not much - could have pushed a bit harder I suppose, but felt a bit lost without mile markers. It's been a long time since I raced a 10K so I wasn't quite sure what to expect from myself.

Walked about for a bit with a water bottle.


Hilly bike course, lack of pacing and mile markers on run.


The 2 loop bike course made things a bit confusing - I wasn't 100% certain at the end of the second loop which way to go. There was only a good explanation of the 2 loop swim course right before the start - 5 minutes before the start. One intersection toward the end of the run had no volunteers at it to control traffic and racers were crossing the street to get on the last straight to the finish. A volunteer there would have been nice. Lastly - mile markers on the run - they had them for the sprint but not the olympic distance. I really like to have them. Well done race, overall.