great start (for once), lined up aggressively close to front and left and bolted out of the gate to try to put some distance between me and the rest, smoked by 4-5 other swimmers and side by side with another few, swam in relative peace and quiet for the duration. Have not been swimming much at all lately so was actually quite happy with the result.

swim more...as usual

one of the better T1's I have had, entered in 10th place, exited in 3rd. No socks, suit came off faster than usual.

Nothing

Riding this course last year helped tremendously, it's an all out sprint but there are some very iffy turns, and the road is in pretty awful condition, but I was familiar with most of the turns and bad patches and was able to hammer through them. Passed the rider in 2nd place in my AG and got into T2 about 8 seconds ahead of him, all in all a solid ride, could not have gone much harder.

good T2, entered 8 seconds up on the 2nd place person in my AG, but he had a 45 second T2 and left just ahead of me, had issues getting my bike shoes off and run shoes on

Felt sluggish coming off bike, could see second place in front of me, we paced evenly the last 2 miles but he put 30-45 seconds on me right out of T2

run the first mile much harder, hoped for a 6:45 pace which I did hold for the last 2 miles but first mile was much slower

sat down


this was my 6th triathlon, more experience will help


I did the sprint here as it was the first triathlon i ever did in 2008 (it was later in the year, november last year I think) so thought it would be fun to finally be able to compare a race from last year to this year. I dropped 11 minutes off my time from last year and, more importantly, got onto my first podium at my 6th triathlon, which I was very happy about.