Swim was shorter than last year by at least a 100 and they moved the transition timing mat from up on top of the stairs to right out of the swim exit.

Overall an ok swim. Started off fast to break away from everyone else and then found a really good pair of feet to drag off of.

At the start I went way too far left as I thought the volunteer wearing the bright yellow jacket was the cone. Corrected it when I saw the pack over to my right and was able to hop onto someone my speed.

Except for the first 200, this went pretty good.

Site correctly the first 200 yards.

Pretty good T1.

T1 is long and includes a short beach run followed by a bunch of stairs.

Nothing.

Happy with this ride as I was pushing it. There were some absolute studs at this race, even if it is just a local small race. 31st overall but 8th place was just two minutes faster than I was - lots of us in the 1:10 - 1:14 range.

Not much. I have not biked a lot since LP so I was happy to be right in the thick of things coming off the bike (I was 8th OA coming into transition).

This sucked. I could not get my bike racked for some reason and then I had to stop 2 times to get rocks out of my running shoes. I was 30 seconds slower than the top guys.

Not forget my towel at home and get rocks in my shoes.

Started off running and feeling good. I had told myself that if my hip started to hurt I was going to back off.

Around mile 1.5 the first guy in my AG went by me...and boy did he go by me. He was flying (later found out he is a 31 minute open 10K runner, he had the fastest split, 34:20, here). No chance to stick with him so I kept my own pace.

Around mile 3 the 2nd guy in my AG went by me and I decided to stick with him as my hip was still ok at this point. That lasted about a mile and my hip started hurting and he was pulling away so I backed off the pace and just cruised the last 2 miles in. I was hoping to split a 40 or 41 here but there was no need to hurt myself as my A race is 3 weeks away.



Looking back I probably would not have gone hard with the second place guy, but my hip was feeling good up to that point.

Walked around, talked and ate a lot of food. Watched Ally, Ernie and a bunch of other friends come in.


LP recovery, hip, lack of training.


Overall a good race. David Glover, the RD, does a really good job, the course is pretty, the giveaways are solid and the food is wonderful. They even have PBJ!