Started at the front towards the outside.
Quickly noticed that I had a small leak in the left goggle. I had my Garmin under the swim cap with the goggle straps holding it as well. This probably pulled the goggles a bit causing a leak @ my nose bridge. It didn't completely fill up and didn't really bother me during the swim.

After the first turn, I found some feet a little faster than me to hang on. Thanks to the 5-per lane swimming with the tri-club, I can actually feel the draft so I was able to hold on pretty well. After about 30 seconds, I ran right into him. He had stopped, popped his head up for a second, and then started again. I had gotten past him, but he came around again. I drafted again as he was no doubt faster than me. Then, he went a bit off course and popped up again. From then on, I swam alone.

Start more in the middle of the front row to possible get a good draft.

Decent transition. I wasn't really in a hurry and had to pull the Garmin out the zip-lock and onto my wrist. I'm still putting my shoes on here rather than leaving them on the bike.

Not much

A bit clogged up at the bike start, but after a few turns, it was straight and there was plenty of room. I felt real good and was holding speed very well. I knew within a few miles I was going to have a good day on the bike. I did a good job not just settling in behind someone as I tend to do and only a handful of people passed me. For the second loop, it was a bit crowded at spots and I held back quite a bit with the congestion & turns, but I still managed to negative split the two laps.

Nothing. I'm very happy with this ride.

Again, not bad. I did go sockless, but didn't have any elastic laces. I managed pretty good to get my feet in the shoes without un-tying them, but not as quick as it would have been with elastic laces.

A little over two months ago, I sprained my ankle pretty bad. Since then, I've not run too much, so I had planned on taking it a bit easy with a soft goal of a 9 min/mi pace. Right from the start, I had settled in at a 8:30-8:40 pace that felt a bit slow. I figured I could hold this and end up with a decent run split. The ankle was feeling great, not protesting one bit.

I hit the aid station and walked it to make sure not to just waste the water and I noticed my quads were a bit tight. This would be the theme of the run. By mile 2, I could feel it running and slowed the pace a bit. This seemed to help and I was handling it ok through the 5k. I really wanted to be done and I got a nice cheer from Karen (KSH) as I entered the second loop which helped for a bit. At the water stop, I walked it again and by now the tightness is turning into muscle cramps. I've never had this before, so I did a bit of walk/run to see if it helped. Walking seemed to get them to spasm worse, so I decided to keep a slow jog. This didn't last too long as with about 1/2 mi left, my left quad completely locked up. I went down into a squat to stretch the quads and just sat there for about 2 minutes. Everyone was asking if I was OK and a volunteer came by with a cold water bottle and sprayed me down a bit. I finally got back up and walked about 1/10 of a mile and it kind of released a bit. I went back to the slow jog which is what I finished with.

I squatted over a bit as the volunteer pulled my chip and then stumbled a bit with my bent-knee walk. I guess I looked pretty bad as I was pointed out where the med tent was :)

sign up for the Sprint distance :)

Stretch out a bit and pound down the water/bananas/oranges/whatever and hang out a bit with my family, friends, & some tri-club teammates.