lots of people. much more confident so I just swam over, around, below people! no grabbing or anything, but hey, you can't wait on people either. It definitely slowed times up a little, but I felt I swam almost as good as my conditioning permitted.

sighting was good, except veered a little of course when coming back into the sun. breathing was good. I felt I had a little left in the tank though at end. breathing hard when I swam up to the ramp.

I even drafted to guys for a while, but bagged it when the guy wasn't sighting well.

used a two beat kick on both sides. that's a first.


to be honest, looking back, I did everything about as well as I could given my limited conditioning.

work on kick; do more intervals to better breathing.

swam until I touched the ramp. then ran well. suit unzipped and rolled to hips well. maybe could've ran a little faster. focused on breathing.

located bike then took off goggle no head, cap and plugs. might've saved a few seconds doing that while running. suit rolled off easy but stuck on heels (not terribly, maybe a few seconds there too).

took a few extra seconds grabbing an extra gel for shirt (should've taped or put in shirt prior to swim).

shades on, helmet on and gone. no rubber bands so pulled red plastic strap out of tall kitchen trash bags I used to cover bike night before, and used to put on ground with Carson's Lightning McQueen towel! worked great.

there was a shorter path to exit that I located, but in haste didn't take. again a few seconds.

tape gel to bike. remove goggles, plugs cap while running.

AG rank 17/290.
Overall Rank 335/3933

numbers were better than last year, but I still need to be a better biker. No reason why I can't do 22+ mph.

tried to spin a little higher cadence. also felt I could've dialed in shifting a little better but tough to do with clip ons.

out of saddle for up hills. no numbness with new seat.

train harder.

kicked ass on T2. took shorter route to rack bike.

bike racked. helmet off. socks were in each shoe (balega socks are awesome, stretchy so they go on easy.) socks on, shoes on. grabbed hat with race belt in it, hat on, clipped belt and split.

AG rank 2/290
Overall Rank 124/3933

took a few extra seconds clippin on belt. run faster? nothing really

not a good run for me. I was really looking to be closed to 8:00 miles.

I hydrated well, and found a rabbit to trail most of the time. paced off him which I felt was my max, then passed and looked for someone to catch at mile 5.

left leg and foot numbness was present. don't understand this but I wind up flipping my foot around a little to get blood flow to it.

train harder. I think it was primarily limited by lack of training on the bike. pushed the bike a little harder, and paid price on run.

let muscles cool down while standing/walking. sat down and went to sit indian style....CRAMPS.

then ate 3 cookies and it screwed my gut up. CRAPS.

line to get in the transition to get bike was CRAP. took forever. some ten in, ten out policy. it was excruciatingly long. especially for the later waves.


I raced this race about as well as I could. Lost a little game on the run, but without more training time, this is about what I got.