I was the most nervous about the swim for months leading up to the race, but I few days before I mentally overcame that and was surprisingly calm right up to the gun. The swim was so much better than I anticipated. I didn't get run over, or hit in the head, the water was not too cold. I really enjoyed myself in the swim, and I ended up swimming about 4 minutes faster than I set as my goal. Way excited!

I would not do anything differently in the swim, but maybe a little less conservative I think I had more in me.

I told myself that I would come into T1 and take my time. Being my first time I wanted to make sure that I had everything i needed before I took off. Nothing went wrong, I just took too much time.

I would have rushed out of the transition, hind sight was that I had everything that I needed I just needed to trust that and go for it, there was a lot of lost time in this particular transition that did not need to take place.

Hardest thing I ever did, I was hoping and had trained to go about 19 - 20 mph, but the wind was way to strong for too much of the course. I stayed positive for the whole duration, but it didn't make we go faster. I started to cramp up a little around mile 20 and noticed that my drinking 2-3 ounces of fluid every 8 minutes would not be sufficient, so I changed to every 4 minutes and was able to pull myself out of the cramping up. I was glad to get off that bike.

I think I would have taken more of an aggressive approach on the bike, maybe not try to conserve anything for the run. A 10 minute mile is worse case scenario for me and it's what I ended up doing anyway.

Came in strong, than I couldn't get my socks on with all the cramping with the hip flexors, I ended up punching them out to get socks and shoes on.

Again I would have practiced without socks and had the proper laces on to be quicker. I was way to slow.

I was way to conservative again, I only went hard with 3 miles left. I was afraid of not finishing the event so much I didn't want to run like it was a race. The jersey I had on was driving crazy, not soft enough and I was starting to get raw from it.

I wished I would have treated it more like an interval, and give it all I had for 3-3 miles and nail the aid stations every third and taking my time to get it all in.

inability to be aggressive enough, not like sprinting but like how I trained.