There was a 100 meter turning run included in the swim time. with out it I was still only swimming 1:25 hundreds

- i need to be in the pool practicing. I can't just show up and expect to be fast.

i was excited to exit the trans area 2nd, passed first as he struggled with shoes - and then he hit his turbo charger and was gone....
not sure why it took 47 secs. i ran full tilt through, grabbed helmet, bike and left.

it was COLD (40 and high winds). my feet were numb by the first mile. i should have put covers over my shoes before the race.
i still am setting up my bike for fit/power


train more -on this bike (most of my miles are on the bike I pull the kids trailer with)

As I jumped off the bike I lost control of it. My feet and fingers were completely numb.
I didn't even realized I disloged a bike shoe in the chaos. A race volunteer brought it to me.

I could not get the chin strap undone. I started to do the shoes. I couldn't bend my legs without cramping my calves. I couldn't get my frozen toes into the shoes let alone the heels. I gave up trying after what seemed like an eternity, managed to unlatch my helmet, grabbed my shoes in hand and ran barefoot until I thought I could get them on (about 200 meters). I sat on a curb and managed to get them on. The T2 time says 1:37 but included my barefoot run and sit down to get my shoes on it was almost 4 minutes on my watch from bike dismount to running with shoes on.

the trans was not the problem. it was not dressing for the weather in the bike

this is the second slowest 5k of my life. the slowest was during a period of life when I was not training and less than a week after giving blood.

agian the issues were dressing right for the weather on the bike.

half mile run


appropriate accommodations for the weather


i really liked the race. most things were to notch

areas for improvement: it had a strange trans area with the bikes coming in and out of the same door. they made us wear caps in the pool. run from pool was a bit long. bike course was on very rough terrain for half mile.