First time I was in the water since SOR. I started in the front on the outside, knowing that I would be one of the faster people inthe wave, but not as cocky to be on the inside. The horn goes off and I start trotting through the water and when the water was above my thight I did two dolphin dives and I was off. I breathe on my left and saw that there was another guy that was breathing to his right and we pretty much on pace and same stroke cadence. So you wanna dance? I figured this was the last race of the year and had nothing to lose, so i decided to step it up a little bit and see what this guy is made of. A couple of long, strong strokes and soon he was out of sight. Keep going man, don't let up. I rounded the first buoy pretty well and by this time i was running into wave traffic and had to navigate a little more that i wanted to. I pulled up for a few breaststrokes and saw the "guy" coming on my left. Oh know you don't. Buried the head down and pulled a couple more hundred feet and before I knew it I was scraping the bottom. Stood up and started running toward the shore. 1st in the wave out of the water, as far as i could tell. Yippee.

Nothing, I was really happy with this swim, especially since I haven't done anything since my "A" race. Took :20 seconds off of last year's time!

Kind of a weird transition for me. For some reason I was fumbling around a lot. I don't think I was slow, overall, but it just seemed like I was all thumbs.

Can't think of anything.

The bike felt pretty good. I was in aero the entire time and I reall had a comfortable pace throughout the race. I was .9 mph faster than last year, which I thought was pretty good. The roads were slick, but if you were cautious, you were fine. I was definitely passing more people than being passed, which is always more fun. I was jockeying with a guy, but by mile 10 or so, i never saw him again, I guess he didn't want to play anymore.

Go faster

I had a really fast transition. Shoes slipped on and then the hat and i was gone!

Nothing

I was actually pretty comfortable right after the bike. Usually I struggle a bit and need to get warmed up a bit, but I was feeling pretty good. I felt like I was pushing it a little harder than normal and I was pretty surprised by my time, I felt much faster than that, but I did have to stop once and stretch out my right calf. I saw someone that i met at the GB triathlon at the turn around and I thought for sure he would have passed me, but I held him off the entire run, which i was happy about.

Loose more weight, run more and get faster.

Bottle of water and a little stretching afterward. Taling with TriDDS, buhdabuhda (Nate) and a few others. We went to Perkins after the race and downed two big glasses of Chocolate milk and a Eggs Scrambler. Good times.


Lack of trainging, focus and natural ability.


This is my anniversary race, Year number 3 for me. It's a nice, low key race and it's fun to see improvement. I was 2:54 faster than 2007 and 9:30 faster than 2006, I'm pretty pleased with those results especially on a short Sprint course.