I was in the front of my wave corral, so I got to seed myself out on the end of the starting barge. That is where I wanted to be as the current is usually faster out in the middle of the river. I got in and held onto the rope, it didnt feel as strong as last year, I literally couldnt keep my legs pointing down last year, the current was so strong. I decided to push the swim as I knew with the current I should be under 20 mins, so when the horn sounded I got away from the pack by swimming hard the first 100m or so. I then settled into a pace and stayed out on the far side of the course. Tried to draft off of a couple of feet but found that they werent too good at swimming a straight line, so just settled into a stroke and swam. When I got to the exit platform I could feel some nasty muck on the bottom and it was getting all strirred up in the river, as my sliced toe bandage came off about 2 seconds into the swim I did not want to stand up in that stuff, so I kept stroking until I was at the platform and just pulled myself up and out.

Not slice my toe open two nights before! Really though nothing, I was very pleased with my swim time and placing in my AG. It was much better than I normally am on the swim.

Exited the swim and jogged a steady pace back to transition. Took the extra time to put socks on which I normally do not wear, because of the sliced and now bleeding toe.

Not slice my toe! :)

My cycling has really been coming along this year, and I wanted to leave nothing on this course. I knew it had a few hills, but was confident in my ability to really hammer the bike and hills and recover on the downhill enough for the run. There were a few times that I had to slow as riders were inadvertantly blocking, but it is a big race and you have to expect that and realize that everybody else is dealing with the same. Most were very good about getting over when I called on your left.

Wish I had a newer bike and disk wheel, but other than that I was very pleased with my bike split.

Got out of shoes on 79th street before the traffic circle, came flying down the hill to the red transition area, I knew where the dismount line was and executed a perfect dismount at the line without losing much speed. I was first back into transition as far as I could tell, so I really flew thru it and headed out on the run konwing there were a lot of people behind me that wasnted to catch me.

Nothing

As I said I knew there were people that would be bearing down on me really soon so it was a lot of motivation to run. Last year I had the worst run on this course as both legs cramped less than 1 mile into it, so I was determined to have a good run this year. I ran by feel, as I didnt take the time to remove my Garmin from my bike, and was pleased as I kept a pace that I would have targeted even with my gps. It was one of those runs that you felt like stopping or slowing down, but I had enough mental motivation to keep pushing.

I would like to get faster, but that will come with time and work.

Headed straight to the medical tent as I wanted to get the cut on my toe irrigated and bandaged, they were great in there and took good care of me. Waited for Danielle to finish and we got massages. We walked out of the park and took one of the Pedicabs over to the transition area to get our stuff. Headed back to our hotel, showered packed up and headed to the train station.


This was probably the best race to date of my 3 years of racing. I would like to continue to improve on all areas, but I think I performed to my maximum ability at this race.


Was a great race in a great city. Getting in the top ten in my AG was just icing on the cake. Danielle and I had a fabulous weekend in NYC,had a blast running in the underwear run on Friday and cant wait for next year!