Turns out the swim was long, my wife said I was 12th out of the water in my wave, so I figured that at least some of those had to be clydesdales, wrong! I had a clean swim, couple of bumps but I tried to draft a little bit. They had a buoy tied to a dock at the finish which kinda put me off course a little bit, I was aiming for that instead of the wavy man.

Not much, good swim for me.

Average T1, had a little trouble getting my helmet on, and my spot was in sand so I tried to get some off before I put my shoes on.

Nothing.

Tough bike course, it seemed to have way more uphill parts than downhill parts. Manadged not to get passed till the last 5 miles, but then got passed by a few people in my AG.

More hill work.

Good T2.

Nothing.

My worst run ever at Pinehurst! I'm not really sure what happened, I had a pretty conservative plan, hold 8:30's. The wheels came off at mile 3, I could not catch my breath, even walking. Maybe having the run course reversed so that you started right off on the hills? Whatever it was it was not pretty, walked alot, never could seem to catch my breath, felt dizzy and vision was blurry. I could not even get myself to run the last mile, just had nothing.

Maybe not enough run mileage leading up to this race?

Went and stood in the lake, felt like crap.


The run killed me, mentally and physically.


I neede a good race to have any chance of moving up, I was 6th going into it and I doubt that this finish helped me at all.
Not to be picky, but not sure if I will do this race again, it's not an olympic distance so there is nothing to compare it to, and none of the distances for this race were on, the swim was long, the run was long and the bike was 30 miles instead of 26.