Swam well. Faster than my 500m last year by 3 minutes. My heat was wthe LAST to start to entire race, so I Gu'd about 30 minutes to early and go pretty hungry on the swim. Group start in chest deep water with 88 people in my heat, things got close with my neighbors. Lots of bumping into other people for the first ~100m. Had a couple hard hits with people who swam into me. I'm confident that I stayed straight.

I ranked #13 of 18.

GO GET IN THE WATER!!!!! Practice OWS!

Pretty long run from the water to T1. So my T1 time is a minute longer than usual. Suit was half off before T1. No real issues in T1.

Still need to practice mounting my shoes on the bike and running barefoot out of T1. I always have problems exiting T1 and clipping in on the bike.

Bike went great. Headwind on the way out was present but not a huge limiter, out speeds of 17-18. Very smooths roads and a tailwind on the way back gave me a push and speeds were about 24. Some of the downhills gave me speeds over 36. Missed the park entrance off the road on my return because they way the guide was standing it looked like he was waving me past, not in. So I had about 40 seconds of wasted time passing and turning around.

I ranked #7 of 18.

I could be faster on the bike. Bike speeds are consistent with the people in my AG above me (Faster than me). So I should be able to push out a little better time. Incorporate more leg work and hills on the bike (though I did well on the hills today - less than 200' of ascending).

Didn't 'jump' off the bike. 54 seconds is still longer than my normal T2 time, but this transition setup was longer too.

Went well.

Run went very well. Started too strong @6:30's. Slowed to 7:15ish as I knew part of the run was trails and dirt roads. It was also an out and back. Back in I was strong and fast. The last 0.25 I was flying. I did a super fast all out sprint the last 1/4 mile... per the Garmin my fastest speed was 4:29. My wife couldn't keep the video camera on me. I don't know how I had that in the tank, but dang!! If I could harness that pace for a mile, recover for a mile and sprint again for a mile, I'd be sub 18's.

I ranked #3 in my AG for the run.

Do more speed work. I'm running sprints but my training runs are long. I'll change up my running this next 2 months for more speed work so I can nail the Lansing Legislator and Pumpkinman. Sub 20 here I come! (And on that note, only 1 person had a sub 20 run today. So my time was good for the course and my AG).

Walked around finishers area and talked with some friends. Ate banana's and drank a bit more than a liter of water.


Swim. 3 minutes off the swim would have gotten me a medal.


Good race, great venue.