When we were standing in the water waiting, the bottom had all kinds of algae growth on it and I commented that "I had never done a swim where it feels like I'm standing on carpet, and the guy next to me said, " I'm trying not to think about it!" :) The water is supposedly clean, though it did start to smell some as the swim went on. I guess us swimmers churned up the water more than it had been in awhile.

MAYBE pushed a little harder but overall I was happy. I kept my stroke fluid and strong.

I set up transition in the dark since they didn't have much lighting so I didn't even think about my sunglasses and when I got to T1, I had to open my T-bag, find my glasses case, open it, then take my glasses out of the protective sleeve, then take off. Plus I went down the wrong aisle initially and had to double back to my bike.

Triple check that I am completely set up. Practice walking in and out of transition to and from my bike which I usually do. I guess I was over confident since I have always found my bike.

I took the first lap at a comfortable hard pace and then on the second lap hit is a little harder. By the second lap, more bike traffic was out there due to the sprint triathletes being on the course, so I had to pass more riders. Overall the bike traffic was light and I was mostly able to go as fast as I wanted to.

Go harder on the first lap.

This was a nice transition for me. I loosened my strap on my shoes coming into the bike dismount area and was able to move out quickly.

Nothing

Negative splited the run. One of the nicest run venues I have ever done.

Run faster. I still had a kick at the end to out sprint someone to the finish. I would rather have been too worn out to sprint the finish.

Walked around, drank some water, ate a banana,some cookies, a banana nut muffin, half a can of Pepsi.


Training. I need to work on developing speed. Especially in the run.


This was a fun race! Great venue for all three legs. Well organized. They should probably have a pre-race meeting at a specific time to explain the wave starts since some people got confused. They also need security at the bike transition. It would have been way too easy for someone to go "bike shopping". No one was at the bike exit when I grabbed my bike to go home to verify that I was taking my bike and not some tricked out Cervelo with Zipp 1080's and a Powertap!