Overall a very good swim for me. My second leg was better than the firt. mY sighting was better and I got into a good rythym much more quickly. It was a mass start and I wa at the back off to the left hand side. Went to wide around the bouys the first round but did stay out of the traffic. Second trip around I moverd into the pask and swam over/through a couple of People. My first shotgun mass start. I could have swam a little harder on the second round but was comfortably tired when I cam out of the water. Could definitely have done th HIM 1900 m distance.

Move cloer to the front at the start and get a good jump into the race.

Good transiton I was 5 out of 15 for the first transiton.

nothing really. Was going to put my shoes on the bike but the grass wa very wet and I didn't want to have to ride with wet socks.

not a good showing. There were a couple of hills I thought I was going to have to get off and walk but I did mange to stay on the bike. Loved the downhill portions. :) My back started to get quite sore about 25K into the race so was not in the areo postion as much as I would have liked coming back.

Need to work more on my hills and especially on core body strength.

very tired by the time I got back and walked my bike into the trasition are. I was 9th in age group in this transition.

run through transition with bike. The actual changing of equipent was very smooth.

The worst part of this event by far. I came out ontothe run portion with a cramp in my right calf. I was hobbling along for about the first K to get it loosened up.After that I still wasn't able to get into a rythi=ym. It was run walk all the way through the run. Ribs tightened up with about 1 K left and had trouble breathing properly. I must have sounded like an old steam engine running through the finish line. Had several discussions with myself over just runing around and DNF"ing. That just wasn't an option

Be more prepared and train more. I think having surgery on wed for my tooth took more out of me thatn I expected.

ladi down on the grass and poured water over me to cool down. Eventually walke darund a bit and then headed out for father's day with family. discovered I had lost 4 pounds dring the race.


not enough preparation?


Vary wel prepard race and everthign seemed to go off without a hitch. Well done.