I walked quite a ways in the shallow before swimming and sighted really well today. That played to my advantage big as there were many swimmers that should not have been in my group and having trouble from 100m out on! I swam over and into a few people on accident, but kept going pretty well. Definitely one of my best OWS performances to date. I am, however, dissapointed in the course as there is a section that comes back to the shallow around the middle bouy and so many people walk there you are almost forced to. This broke my momentum in the water.

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This was a long run to my bike waaay in the back of transition. I think 1:30 to 2:00 was getting to my area. Went quick after that, but running barefoot cross ashfalt was interesting. My feet are not used to this. Even so I should have run faster to get to my transition area.

run faster to my spot

I can't complain too much because I really smoked this flat course. There were a lot of people in this race and some did not get the concept of keeping the left clear for faster riders at all. I was constantly screaming "on the left!" Most moved over but there are always bad apples. Somebody let a car on the course too during lap one that could have been bad, but for the most part it was well marked and the police did a good job of keeping traffic off the course

Nothing! I feel incredible about my bike performance here

T2 went well for me. I was close to bike in, but run out was clear across the entire enormous transition area. I'm really happy I broke 2 minutes here.

Not waste time turning off my garmin! LOL

I started a little too hard out of the gate. Probably with the extra adrenaline I had from seeing my family there at T2. I was able to compose my self and settle into a good pace still.

I don't think I needed to slow down and get water more than once on this course. Had I grabbed 1 water in the middle of the course would have worked and probably saved me the 10 seconds to get a 20 minute handle on my 5k

stretch and wait for my wife to come in! :)


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The goodie bag for this race was rediculous for the money paid for this. However, being so close to home it is a great race for my family to come out and see what I do with all the time I spend training. Plus I don't have to pay for hotel/meals/driving expenses/etc. compared to other races I travel for. For that reason alone I will probably do this race again

I think the race is very well run for the amount of people at this race. There was a lot of confusion in the swim. Definitely my most aggressive experience in the water to date, but I'm pleased with how I held it together and created a new pr. I'm a little dissapointed in the swim course as the middle came back to shallow water where a mass of people walked around the bouy. For me this broke my momentum as I was forced to walk with everyone else or dodge them with my head under water.

For me, this was my best performance to date and everything came together. I'm actually surprised because I literally spent the week before recovering from a week long vacation/alcohol binge/slash glutany binge. I regreted this in the week before the race because I really wanted to do well in this race with my family there. Reguardless, in the week before nutrition/recovery/training/and mental strength all came together for me to produce a stellar performance for myself. I'm a first year triathlete and look forward to continued training, and hopefully, continued progress and success.