The swim went pretty well. I was not use to swimming counter clockwise but it was not to much of a problem. With waves of only 25 people going at once it was not very crowded. It did seem like it took forever to get out of the water due to it being so low. I tried to swim to the shore as far as I could but it was still along way to finally get there.

Work on bi-latteral breathing. Also, remember to start my watch, Duh.

Well, I decided to try something different this race and I had cages on my bike instead of cleats, so I just found my bike, slipped on my shoes and helmet and took off. It worked out pretty well.

For the next race, I think I will take the advice of a fellow BTer and use my bike shoes and pedals for the bike portion. I think the cages slowed my performance on the bike a bit. Overall it was one of the fastest transitions I have had.

The course had a lot of hills and was challenging but I thought it was a good course. It was an out and back with some flat areas about halfway thru the course.

Like I said earlier. This is where I need to improve the most. I need more hill work. As you can tell from my age group rank I did good on the swim and run but the bike hurt me.

T2 went very fast for me. All I had to do was rack my bike, take off my helmet, grab my hat and race number and take off.

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I still can't belive the time I finished in. I have never run that fast before. It sure didn't feel that fast. I have a 5K coming up in a couple of weeks so I will see if I can beat this time.

Do more bricks and need some more hill work.

Did some walking and lite stretching. Looked for the Fort Wayne crew to see how they did.


This was the first year for this race but I thought it went very well. It was nice to get to meet some fellow BTers at the race and talk. I will definitly do this one again next year.

The pictures below are of me crossing the finish line and the other is a picture with fellow BTers, Rio and Egates656.