I had a pretty good swim going, I think the HR was down, breathing was alright and I was playing it safe for the first 800 meters. Mike was out in front of me and some yo-yo was in front of him. Going slower than we should have been going. I was tapping feet and was getting no response until the last 100. Dude was not happy. F him. I moved for some chick and she wasn't even toe tapping. Anyways, nailed down the 800 with no problems and I was happy. Getting out of the pool I managed to pass one other guy and Mike, jumped in a head of them into the lane and was off. Mike was on my ass from the work go. He was whacking my feet for 250 meters but I tried to keep up. With him hammering and me hammering to stay out front I ran out of gas, breathing was all messed up and I was done. at 300 to go I was doing some wall mongering and dropping a lot of time. In all I'll bet I lost a minute. Crap. Lessons here we come! Out of the pool, got yelled at for running on the pool deck, then off for the long run to T1

keep to the game plan

good change over, took an extra second to make sure my head bandage was on and no leaking. Nothing to really mention, my T1 is fast cause the bike wants to get out there and preform. He's been stuck on stupid post chilling with a bunch of slow, dumb looking bikes. He wants to get out there and RIDE!!!!!

Not much, pretty text book T1

Riding the bike Grrrrr! What is better than starting out on the course and passing everyone. Some complain that this race sucks because there are too many people out there. I think it makes it better. Having a few sheep out there on the roads make us wolves that much faster. I was hammering pretty good into the first few corners and cruised by a bunch of people. My first problem occurred at 5:07 minutes in. The flagging crew and I had a misunderstanding and I missed a turn and almost collided with a bunch of other racers. Could have been ugly but no harm and no fouls. It was a bit embarrassing cruising down Marine with 50 people looking at me wondering what the hell I was doing on the wrong side of the street. Managed to get back over at the next break in the median. Got back over and kept on passing people. Got out to the first turn around and was hit with a gorgeous head wind. 50 down and 30 back up. man did that suck. Whatever, still hammered. I managed to keep hunting the little bikes and managed to add a few beauties to my kill list. 4 P3C's, a hand full of carbon wheels, some disks, a couple of P2C's and even a nice new P4. my little buddy bristled when we passed the big boy and he really made them pay. Finished off the route, did get passed by 2 guys on some serious machines but as they passed me they exited the course, so I'm hoping they were doing the Sprint. So does that count as a pass? Probably. :(

Do differently? Go faster. Faster and faster. Get a bigger hammer and swing it mercilessly! Why doesn't the OVERALL drop down have "FUCKING AMAZING" as a choice? Or even great?

Again, pretty fast T2, not much to do, I think I may have spent a bit too much time getting out the door, possibly 5 seconds or so. Can't complain. Mind you that 5 seconds will be coming back to bite me in the ass I'm sure.......

Better concentrate on what needs to be done asap and do it!

Took off running at a faster pace than usual. Some chick came out of T with me and was crushing the start. I could not settle in and let her pass me. I managed to keep her off me until the 5 K marker. Where she left. Dirty girl was only doing the Sprint. Jerk. My HR was sky rocketing because I couldn't let someone pass me. No one else came near me on the run and I actually managed to get some distance between me and the others I was seeing on the run. Through out some encouragement to some of the strugglers out there and told them to keep on moving. Some responded, some looked like they needed medical aid. At the 7 K marker I looked at my watch. I was going to be very close to my goal if I pulled it together. Just a bunch of hills in my way from here on in. Who the hell designed this run!?!? I pushed hard, so hard the people I was passing must have thought I needed to get to the first aid fast! Maybe I should have looked at the watch one last time during the last 200 m. Cruising down the chute I passed one last guy and rolled over the mat. 2:30:03. Unofficial time. Time and placements will be posted once they are online. Not happy but not totally unhappy with the race.

More race paced running. I think I've been dogging it out there. Differently. Hmmm, take it smooth so the body doesn't shut down at the last Km. Slow is the new fast? .........Ah Bullshit! Faster is the new fast!

Warm down consisted of waiting for Mike to cross, chatting with a bunch of racers, eating bananas, oranges and bagels and drinking some water. Got in the car, drove home and flopped into the hot tub!


Goofing off. Stopping in the pool to catch my breath. Not sticking to the game plan. Its a good plan, we should stick to the plan. Need to go faster on the bike so I can afford a bigger buffer on the run and make up some time on the swim.