The relays were in the last wave with the older Men, the Novice men and the Clydes/Master Clydes. So me among a sea of really big dudes. But I held my own very well, I thought. I pushed a decent pace, since I'd never actually "raced" this distance before, and had to swim the next day as well. Didn't get kicked or punched or smacked, passed a lot of people, and eventually caught up to and passed a bunch of people from the previous waves. My sighting is getting much better, and I never hit any traffic jams where I had to stop and breaststroke. I caught up with one of the bigger guys on my team and stayed with him for the last 3rd of the swim.

Nothing really. Just keep getting faster. The one thing I don't like about OWS is that the times reflect the time it takes to slog out of the water and up to the transition mat, which was over on the beach. So my actual swim time was less than 30 minutes.

The long haul across the beach, up the stairs and to the very end of the transition area makes the T1 time a little slow. Quick pass off to Tom, my cyclist and I could relax and go change and warm-up.

Nothing. Going faster up the stairs would have been tricky. Wood + water = slick!

Beats me - Tom rode it, I didn't :) I'm glad for that! He said he felt good about the ride, looked solid coming back into transition.

Quick and easy - grab the timing chip and run!

Considering that I haven't been able to run much in a month so lacked some fitness on a pretty hilly course, it was HOT out and I'm not acclimated to the heat right now, and I've been injured so haven't run more than 2 or 3 miles at a time, I still managed to pull off a 10K PR by about 10 seconds. I took it pretty easily, since the course is challenging, I've been injured and I had to run again the next day. Just had a good time cheering on fellow teammates as I saw them. The second loop of the course was a little rough, mentally. I walked in a couple spots just to save energy, but tried to make up for it on the downhills. Coming into the park, I finished strong.

Um, not get injured and lose fitness and heat acclimation :) Really, I'm happy with what I did, considering all the things working against me.

Grabbed some water, went to the Team Z tent and ate some tasty food :) Had half a beer, chatted with friends, saw non-Z friends Jeff and David and chatted with them a bit.


Being injured and not able to run much for about a month weakened my run a bit, but still happy.


Set-up did a good job with this one. TONS of volunteers for this race. And plenty of water. I know that they were starting to run out in some spots, but I saw people delivering extra water. It was a hot day and a lot of people were dumping more water on their heads than drinking.
Fun times with my team - Tom and I did a good job :)