The pace looks fast but it was downstream in a river. I felt pretty relaxed and just took it easy. My time this year is the same as the past few years.

Not a bad transition. I set up my bike in the same area as two years ago when I did good at this race. My T1 was about 1 minute faster this year!

I averaged 14.7 mph at the turn around. I think this is slower than in years past. I was having a good time passing the ladies in my age group. Over the last few miles of the ride, I was passing people in other age groups. I didn't see anymore in mine. This made me a little worried. Little did I know that I had passed them all!!!

My bike leg was 3 seconds faster than two years ago. I'd call my performance consistent.

I had to throw someones wetsuit off of the bike rack where my transition area was set up. Grrrrr!!!! He had a perfectly good towel to set his wetsuit on!!! My T2 ended up being a little slower than 2 years ago.

My legs just didn't want to go! To add to the difficulty, I had to weave my way around the 5K runners who started their race as I was racking my bike. Grrrrr!!! Then a 5K runner side-stepped to avoid someone squirting water and ran into me!!! Grrrrr!!!! THEN, I had to WALK behind some 5K runners who wouldn't get out of my way!!!! GRRRRRR!!!! My run time would have been better.

Wandered around and drank some beer. I also picked up my super cool age group first place medal!


Fun race. This is the fifth time I've done this race. It's a tradition.