when i was in T1 i heard someone saying that its 10 minutes into the race, so i figured i made i tout in ~10 minutes.
first off, i thought the pool was HOT!!! i underestimated my swim time when i registered, so that made me the first one out of the pool in my wave somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 minutes. my swim time was slightly hampered by the pool i train at being closed for 3 weeks, and then only being able to swim about 5 times from the time it reopened. so my training for this race was sub-par coming out of summer. oh well, i was still satisfied.

try my best to make every minute of my swim training count.

T1 wasnt bad, you just arent supposed to run around the pool deck inside the building in fear of slipping. so i tried to moderately jog. once again, i swam in a pool without a shirt and ended up wasting time trying to get a shirt on in transition. i gotta stop doing that same thing, expecting a different result.

swim with a shirt on.

just guessing at my time here. being in the first wave, and the first one out of the water, i had no one to play catch-up to. on top of that, my bike computer froze up .8 mile into the ride. so i had no way to check my cadence, speed, or time. i just made sure that my legs were spinning fast and that i was breathing hard, and i would be about the pace that im used to. i kept checking over my should though to make sure no speed freak on another bike was creeping up on me. so i tried instead to play a little "keep away" in my mind to distance myself from other riders.

update my bike computer batteries.

stinkin mess! i was unclear/not thinking of where i had to come into T2 from the bike and ended up riding up in front of the building instead of returning to transition where we left from. so that turning around cost me at least 10 seconds, which could have bumped me up to 11th place instead of 12th. so i was a little disappointed that i didnt think to verify that while waiting around ebfore the race, and disappointed that the race helpers didnt tell me where to go until after i had made a wrong turn. no one was pointing saying "hey come on, this way". but, that is ultimately my responsibility as a racer to know.

know where to come in and out of all transitions.

keep building up more miles so i can get that time down.

grabbed a drink and waited around.


ehh, i guess not being able to swim enough in the last 6 weeks. other than that, just self limitations on time in training for the bike and run. but i am pleased overall.


nice race. fun bike course. decent pool. lots of volunteers and festivites. fast results posting. i wish the age group brackets would have been split up differently. being in the 30-39 age group, i placed 7th. but if it would have been split up 30-34, i would have been 2nd in AG. but again, oh well. thats the race! and i thoroughly enjoyed it.