Wow, so many things went through my head during this swim. I just didn't do well. I was battling with myself the whole time! About half-way, I attempted to slap myself in the face (mentally) and tried to get it together. I did better then but still felt the anxiety and like my wetsuit was choking me. I know that more open water swimming would eliminate this problem. I was just glad to be done and without needing the assistance of the lifeguards.

Practice open water swimming more. Since this is the last tri of the season for me, this is a goal for next season.

After leaving the water it was a long run through transition to my bike. Having cold feet and being barefoot, it was hard to move very fast and kinda painful. To exit the transition, I had to run the bike about 100 feet out of the parking lot and onto a dirt road where we could mount the bike but I chose to run about 20 feet more to the pavement. Trying to ride my new tri bike on pot-holed dirt was not a good idea.

nothing really...did the best I could with how things were laid out.

Since this was 3-loop course it was a little difficult to get up to top speed and keep it there. There were lots of corners and traffic of other riders. Again, I did the best I could considering the course. Again, I ran into the problem of the dirt road and a ways to run the bike till the transition mat. My garmin got about 13.7miles and 20.5mph.

Nothing, felt great on my new bike! I love it!!!

Hard to run from jumping off the bike on the dirt road to the bike rack. The area was just not ideal for this .

Nothing, I guess.

I think that this run was short. I am not that fast of an open 5k runner. My garmin got 2.68 miles, so I am not really sure what the actual distance was. Somewhere in between the two I suppose. The road was very "washboard" and hard to find a good spot that was smooth.

Push a little harder, I think I had a little more.

Walking and some stretching. It started to spit rain so we didn't stick around for too long.


NEED TO SWIM OPEN WATER MORE!!!