Good swim felt good throughout with my pace. Tri suit slowed me down a little bit because of the drag. Guess I need to upgrade to a speed suit ;)

Nothing really I was pretty well pleased with my time

Got out of the swim and into the transition well. Tried to control my breathing and focus on getting everything. On smaller races like this I need to carry all of my supplies already on the bike. I wasted a big chunk of time getting GU's and a stupid tire and tire lever in my pockets. Could have gone a lot faster. Put my shoes on before hopping on the bike which was good and bad because of the mud.

Not carry all that crap and put the shoes on the bike. This I hope to work on the next few times I go riding.

Went out a little too hard on the bike in the beginning. The course gets harder as you go on with the hills so I was all happy I was crushing the course for the first half (avg'd 20ish). The second half came all of the hills and they really zapped the energy out of my legs.

Not go as hard? I'm really pleased with my bike overall time wise. I mean riding hills will make me stronger as we go on but I'm happy with my peformance

The end of the bike course you come up a driveway hill and my heart rate went sky high trying to maintain as much speed as possible into the end of the course. I ended up walking through the transition with my bike to try and bring my HR down realizing that I had the run to focus on

Get better off the bike and out of my shoes.

Went out pretty well and controlled my breathing. I got to around mile 1 and my stomach started having some issues, so I stopped for about 20 seconds. Tried to keep a consistent pace and keep pushing knowing I'd kick it up on the turn around. Right around the turn around I took in some water and had side cramps. SIDE CRAMPS!! I didn't think I was going that fast to get side cramps?! Walked for about 20 more seconds and had a girl pass me. Figured she was putting down a good pace, so I paced with her. Rounding the turn to go up the driveway I put the hammer down and tried to crush it till the end. Crossed the finishline knowing I put all the effort I could have.

Run hills more (even though I've been running them for a while). Do more bricks. Plan on doing atleast 1 brick session a week. Need to get off the bike and run better.

But still not a bad pace 8:48 is a typical tempoish/easy run is for me

Crossed the finish line and got a congrats from Rick, Joe, and Steve. Gathered all my stuff, got changed and headed back to Joes house for some breakfast (it was only 930am :) ) Came back around 11ish to get Joes overall win and to check the results. I come up the driveway to check the times and Rick tells me I got 3rd. Not believing him 100% I check and I got it! Got 3rd in my AG! Heck I was shooting for top 5 and would have been happy with that and my best goal would be top 3. And hell I got it!


T1, T2, and side pains on the run


Great race and a wonderful time to come out and see some sandbaggers (Joe and Rick) and some first timers (Mir) all in the same place. The race has improved since I did it for the first time 3 years ago. Planning on becoming an "official" course and now have split times. Also it goes to a good cause which is always a plus.