First race swim in the wetsuit. The open wave definetly had some fast swimmers, the race started out pretty smooth but after a while I was with a pack of about four and drafting pretty well, then this guy came up on my left and he kept pushing to the right off course, finally after fighting him I dropped back and went around to his left and just stayed steady the rest of the way. Caught up with a group of three just at the end of the swim.

Nothing happy with the swim, although the water was a little warm, but not much you can do about that.

Long run from the water to the racks. The whole area was sand with a little grass mixed in so it made getting the wetsuit off a dirty process, overall it went pretty good.

Not much maybe go a little quicker

Started off easy just spinning to get the legs used to working after the swim, and to kind of get the lay of the course. One nice thing about racing the open wave is that the bike course is nice and empty, not like the madness at CAPTEX. The goal for the bike was to increase effort with each subsequent lap, the legs felt okay. The second and third laps the course started to get a little more crowded, but it never got to the point of being ridiculous. Felt like I increased effort each lap but in the end I ended up losing some ground. Never felt like I pushed it too hard, but overall it was okay.

Push the bike leg a little harder, take in some more nutrition, all I did was drink water from the aero drink, no gel no GU2O.

Rack was real close to bike in, had to wipe off feet after running through the dirt in transiton before putting on running shoes, I also forgot a hat or visor for the run, oops... got socks shoes and race number and started the run

Not much

Not very happy with this run. Started out with some winding chicane like stuff through auditorium shores that was on the grass and that I was not expecting. the run course was definetly changed from last year. The run started out okay, and I did not want to push too hard on the first lap, but I noticed my breathing was labored right from the get go. The first lap went okay and the plan was to try and get faster the second lap. This did not happen, I tried to push but my legs just did not want to go, and during the second lap the hammys started to get tight, they never cramped but it was that feeling that they were right on the verge of cramping, the rest of the run was just trying to maintain and finish it off.

Don't know, this run hurt. I need to do more brick workouts leading into Longhorn.

Walked around auditorium shores a couple of times and drank about three bottles of water. Looked for Todde to congratulate him an absolutly smoking this race. Met up with a few folks and headed to the beer tent for some fat tire mmmm.


Overall I am fairly pleased with this race. Longhorn is the A race so that is where my focus needs to be, but this was a good prep race. Things that did not help were my limited training due number one to the move which saw low training volume in July. The lack of bricks has hurt as well, time to get ready for Longhorn.


Great race again. Everything was oustanding was only compalint was that there seemed to be a lack of porta potties this time around?