Can you say the Long Island Ocean. The water was rough, but I liked the challenge as it was fun to battle thru the chop. I was fortunate to have joined a crew that swam on Thursdays at sunken meadow and this practice paid off. There were times ( not many )at SM that reminded me of these conditions.

Get a swim coach next year to learn a better technique as I know my form is far from perfect.

The suit got stuck on the timming chip - Only cost me about 10-15 seconds.

I almost missed the bike on a flying mount - WOW. I need to slow it down a notch and try not to crush the boys - OUCH

I was fortunate to have attended the clinic to ride the course 2 weeks prior to the race. This should have helped right? In retrospect this DID NOT help. Why? Because we performed the clinic at a slow speed and it appeared to be easy, but after the swim my HR to zooming and climbing those hills became a challenge. I kept asking myself where the hell did these hills come from

Need more hill work. Weighing 210 lbs it's not easy climbing hills.
Did I say more hill work ?

Excellent flying dismount - I was able to do it in one motion.

Nada

My Run Stinks !

I like to blame my slow run time on my size, but the reality is I’m never going to be less to 210. I like to keep my size for Hockey and my gene pool will not allow me to drop below 200. So what do I do? I need a game plan for the run. I just run to run. Talking with a few experienced Tri Members recently they have reinforced the idea of training with a plan – tempo, fartlex, etc.

I need to implement these changes into my 2009 season.

Just hung around with some club members and met a few new friends. My wife came down with the little guy and that was a perfect ending to my day.


End of season saturation.....