SO my swimming has not been up to par lately as I have not wanted to swim much. I need to change that soon. So I knew I would be behind and chasing people today. Decent swim but all the boats were out and made for a wavey swim. Great sighting today as I didn't have any issues here. Came out of the water and ran up the 150 yards or so to the transition area. Din't really hustle here, not sure why, and I also stopped on the grass to take off the wetsuit. SO my swim was probably more around 14:30. TIme to get to work!

Swim more and run faster up the hill.

Fastest T1 overall.

Nada

I got out of transition well and onto the bike but took forever to get the shoes on. Pushed hard from the start as I knew there was plenty of people ahead of me to catch. Passed a few people and saw the 2 people in my age group I needed to hunt down. They were 2:45 ahead of me out of the swim. I think I rode to hard and my stomach was cramping up on both side under my rib cage. Backed it off a few times to see if I could make it go away. Beside I wanted to run well. SO no one passed me and I gained some time back on the number 2 guy in my agegroup but not 1st place guy. 1st place guy just qualified for Kona with a 10:14 at Saint George! 5th in the agegroup there. THis guy is fast. The number 2 guy is his buddy Kevin. SO I hustle into transition and drop the bike off and get ready to track em down.

RIde more hard efforts in training. But hey that is why I raced today!

So I forgot the yanks like I said so I had to tie the shoes today or I would have been out in under 25 seconds. Still not bad . ALso forgot to put on the number belt. Dang, I forgot how to race...

read above.

Really pretty happy with this run. I do believe the course was a bit short. Ok so I set out quick to hunt people down. Caught almost everyone from the first wave except 5. Kept it hard and at mile 2 I am having some cramping again in the same place as on the bike. I didn't slow down this time. Saw who I needed to catch. We get to the last tunaround and I push past the #2 guy who looks to be hurting and fading. SO I push hard and continue to push hard up the sandy beach portion up to transition. I am going as hard as I can, and here comes #2 guy and he sprints by me. Damnit. That was all I had, I had worked so hard to get him and he out kicks me.

Not wuss out and go harder.

Caught my breathe and walked around and talked with friends.


Training.


This was cool being on Friday night! Warm out, light out, don't have to get up early! Good post race food and beer! Good times.