Swim went OK, started out front and was able to maintain fairly well. Daryl was next to me, and kept running into me so I blew past him just after the first buoy. Overall I felt like it was a pretty good swim.

Work on drafting, and spend more time in open water.

For some reason, they had us walking the bikes from the timing mats to the top of the hill before they were letting us mount. This was extremely difficult to do in cleats, which added an additional 15 or 20 seconds to my bike time.

Nothing

Bummed out, I left the house without my Garmin, so I was just guessing as to weather or not I was pacing myself correctly. I really missed my cadence sensor.

Still need to work on hills better, and spend more time doing bricks.

I cramped up immediately after leaving transition. Both calves were more concerned with siezing up than with running. Stopped to massage them and stretch, then continued. I must have stopped 3 or 4 times for about 20 or 30 seconds each time. Probably my best run on this course, but I was still not pleased with 10 minute miles.

Run training. More bricks.

I didn't really do much accept wait for my other friends to cross the finish line. Some light stretching and then had a post race breakfast provided by the RD.


My lack of training.


Looking forward to next year so that I can try and place in my age group. If I can perfect my run off the bike I will be able to do just that.