COLD! Feet and hands went numb pretty much immediately and everytime the head went into water, a brain freeze set in. Tried to get some kind of breathing rhythm down but exhaling was a challenge. Putting the face in the water hurt enough that it was hard to exhale. Had to swim once and a while with the head out of the water until the face went numb and then swam the last 150 as normal.

Swim in cold water more for training?

T1 was tough. Hands and feet were still numb which made it a challenge to work the fingers. Not a bad T1 time considering.....

Dissapointed in the bike. Thought I cruised through it pretty well. I was actually excited awaiting to find out my pace and then dissapointed that it was 19.4 average. Damn. Felt good the whole time but by the look of my splits, mile 7 was 16.4, mile 8 was 17.4, and mile 14 was 18.1. Take those out of the mix and my pace was 21.6 Not sure what happened there...no bad hills. Not sure....

Train harder on the bike I guess...I even had Zipp 404'sfrom Stadium Bike...definitley dissapointing.

Good transition. Need to work on dissmounting but overall pretty good. Little scare when I went to take off my bike shoes....my right calf cramped for what was only 5 secs or so but it was an oh shit moment.

Good run. Legs felt comfortable getting off the bike and I was hoping for negative splits which I got. Could have pushed harder and kept all under 7 but still happy with it.

Missed the finish chute and had to cut across the grass to get to it. Cones were set up a little confusing. Other than that I wouldn't do anything different.

Grabbed a water and then went and met up with Marla, my dad and dan, Jack Todd, Parker, Carol and Jill.


Chest congestion! Not sure if it was the allergies or a chest cold. No wheezing but definitley full of stuff.


Pretty good for a local event. Could of used a few more volunteers and coning but overall not bad.