Swam a bit slow, didn't feel bad just swam slow. It's been a while since I've not been in the first swim wave, in a small field. I got boxed in a few times and had to take bad lines to avoid groups of people. Just how it goes, wouldn't call it a bad swim, felt good, stayed comfortable and relaxed which was the goal. I knew my main competition was Scott and with about 200 to go I switch to breathing to my right and I see him right there with me. We swim shoulder to shoulder the rest of the swim and come out right together.

Been slacking on my swimming, and it shows... just slow. I do think the course was more like 600m over yards like they say. I was just slow compared to people I normally swim with. They were all 20-40s ahead of me.

Pulled a Macca with my Aero helmet not being able to buckle while I yelled at it. Lost probably 15s here.

So I had come out of the water with Scott and got into t1 ahead of him, but messed up my t1 and was now behind him. However, once again I prove that having shoes already clipped in isn't always the fastest. As I brought those 10-15s I lost in transition with my helmet back in a instant while he started to put his feet into his shoes while on the bike. He re-passed me maybe a mile later and put then started to put pressure on me. Miles 1-4 I was red lining it to keep him just 10s ahead of me. I started to bring him back close to the turn around thanks to some turns(he didn't corner very well). Then after the turn around, I got three bike lengths behind him and sat there for a minute before repassing him and upping the pace again to get a gap. Ended up with maybe a 20s gap on him going into T2. Not a bad ride, but did feel like we rode a lot faster than what we did.

Rode well, so wouldn't change much.

No idea, once again it got combined into my run. I'd take a guess and say it was 35-40s as I wasn't super speedy.

Nothing.. I intentionally went a bit slow to get my HR down. The heat was having it's affect on me by this point in the race.

Came off the bike feeling pretty good and ended up running the first mile rather fast. Still I was expecting Scott to catch me and then I would have a real hard run on my hands. I didn't extend the gap on him over the first 3/4 of a mile but then he started fading back after that. I slowed up over the 2nd mile as I really was getting rather hot, but then tried to push it again over the last mile and felt like I was running well. Once again my splits don't show what I felt like I was running, but with the heat I'm pretty happy overall. It was like running in a bathtub almost. :) Felt good for the whole race and didn't have any real problems.

1 mile jog


The fact that when I got in my car at 5:10am it was 85 degrees and 98% humidity? :)