the course map showed outside right to be the shortest line to the first turn. so i had planned on this, right up until the start. walking up palm beach it was clear with the westerly wind that left side was the place to be. the wind was pushing the intermediate buoys to the east and watching the first few waves go off, the athletes as well.

so i went about 5 feet outside the left buoy. several others noted the same thing and joined me over there. a few commented on how more people didn't pick up on this. oh well.

away we went. pretty uneventful swim. the long westerly stretch was slow going with a bit of chop and wind. i also did a poor job of siting here as i nailed the first turn but about halfway down the stretch i realized i was a good 20 yards north of the line.

i swam a 34 minute 1500 at gateway 2 weeks ago so i was expecting to be a bit faster than this. oh well. good swim.

slow transition! transition is simple. get out as fast as you can.

run

goal was to hang around 130 on the hr monitor. worked out well. felt really good the first half. second was good to but the course got really boring.

i did manage to take a leak or three! never have i done that before. sounds stupid but i tried to go and and i went. was smart enough to check behind me first. but then when you're this slow there's not to many people left behind you! ha!



push harder

pretty good transition. could be faster but it is what it is.

well. here we are. the. run.

really happy to see trevor, tony and sam out there. awesome stuff running trevor to the chute. ran with tony for a little bit but he had a lot more gas so i told him to go. sam, i watched he run by and was amazed at how fresh she looked! i kept looking for suzy but she never showed up. hopefully she'll keep working on her run and get faster.



not so sure what went down. seems to be the same issues that were at gateway. but who knows.

drank beer.


volunteers were AWESOME!!!!

you guys up on the mg rock! thanks!!!