swim felt great. i felt smooth. my breathing was spot on. i wasn't all over the joint with my sighting. it was awesome. sadly, i'm just not fast. good news is i felt great. then the wave behind me started to catch up to me...and swim over me...and kick me in the face...so annoying. but, i just kept moving forward and got another clear lane. really felt great...just need to get faster. i know that requires more time in the pool...so that's what i'll do...sometime...just not yet... :)

swim faster.

t1 was great. no realy issues. swim cap/goggles off, shoes on, mount bike. easy.

can always go faster

had tiny pebbles in my shoes the entire ride. might want to wipe off my feet a lil bit before i put shoes on. felt them the whole time.

i struggled this bike. i looked down at mile 7, yes 7 and though, i really want to be done. just didn't have a lot of umph in my legs for some reason. decided at that point to turn speed off garmin and just ride. i had to go 56 miles whether i liked it or not, i might as well make the best of it.

crossed the bridge for the first time and saw 2 guys in a fishing boat. was wishing i was with them. crossed another time and saw 2 guys on a jet ski...really wanted to be them. was wanting to push the staples easy button a couple times. was singing the chorus to 3 different songs and was thinking, i really should learn the verses to these because the chorus gets old after a while. then thought i really think i like team sports better. not so sure i'm fun enough to spend this much time by myself. seriously...these are the crazy thoughts that go through my head. weird.

probably not run 11 miles the day before. i don't want to blame this on my fatigued legs, but i'm sure it had a little to do with it. i signed up for this race last minute because i thought it would be a good way to force myself to swim and typically a 56 mile bike ride is the distance i would ride sometime on the weekend. thought putting the two together would be fun. which, in the big scheme, it was, but i probably should've run friday and had saturday as a rest. ah well, live and learn.

stood around being soooo happy that i didn't have to run a 1/2 marathon. eat pizza. chat with the crew.


run the prior day. no motivation to really go too fast. lack of swim time in the pool. own self.


volunteers at this race were fantastic. water stations, awesome. jack's speeches, soooo long. jack yelling at my brother, hysterical. would NOT do this as a full 1/2 IM. that run course looked lonely as we were driving out. and hot. argh. aqua bike though...awesome. will do it again. support is fantastic. just not a lot of bells and whistles associated with it...but that's jack and we all know that going in...