This swim was weird because it was my best 100M avg in an open water event, but I didn't feel like it was a good swim at all. Possibly because of no warm up, but my stroke was fast and I was expending way more energy than I wanted to swimming. When I got done I was completely winded. Ran up the ramp and saw hogans and buehler and laughed after I went by. I had to look beat down.

Warm up.

I took my time because of how I felt. Got to the mount line and took off. I could not get into my shoes.

Went out of the park recovering and took the RT to get out on the fast part of the course. At about mile 2, I could hear my front brake rubbing a little on my wheel. It wasn't slowing me down any so I decided not to stop, then at about mile 8, I hear what sounds like my front wheel is coming apart. I look down and see my entire brake dangling against my wheel. So, I pull over to the side and check out my bike and try to figure out how hogan was able to sabotage the kueen k during the official bike weigh in, but quickly refocus and realize I can just throw the cable over the aerobars and move on. SRM showed a 35 second pit stop. Once I got going again, I felt great and managed to catch about 4 or 5 people before getting back to T2.

Bike tune up???

good T2.

Felt really good on this run. Don't know why I faded on mile 2, but on mile three, I was able to pick it up and finish strong. Goal was 21:41, and I probably could have done it, if I had any clue as to where I was on my run time. Need to do something different there.

Something, but I don't really know what. Don't like the big clunky garmin during races, so I wear a polar and hit the lap button at each mile to see my pacing. But, I don't know where I am on total run time and the last thing I want to do is try to add minutes and seconds together when my entire body is one electrolyte away from complete shut down.

Drank some Gatorade. Talked with Lora from swim class (congrats on your race and 2nd place finish by the way). Saw Jenny coming out of the swim and gave her a shout that I am sure inspired her to at least a 3 second faster T1.


Just the quick pit stop.


Good race. Militant Jack runs a good race, If they created a little better atmosphere, more people would do his events. Maybe they all sell out anyway, I'm just sayin...