Could have had a better swim but after an 8 hour training day on Saturday my goal was not to burn out. I just took it easy. I had to fast swimmers in my lane, a 16 year old boy and 20 year old girl that both passed me fairly quickly. I did pass the other person in my lane though. Strange thing was for the swim it was wet suit legal. I have never done a pool swim where wetsuits were legal but since it was outside people wore them. I actually saw one guy running in the pool withe wetsuit on "WTF??". Anyways. I just tried to maintain a good pace and when someone passed me tried to tag along for a second. With about 100 meters to go I noticed my strap coming lose so when I normally would have kicked at the end I could not. I need to make sure and pin my timing strap for IMKY (lesson 1 learned)

Nothing. I could have pushed harder but what was the point.

As I exited the pool I notice my garmin band was not on. I was not sure if I had it on when I got in the pool but I though I did. The run from the pool to the bikes was fairly far and my legs where not feeling like running yet so I took it easy. Definately hurt my time. Also, I did not want to even try getting my shoes on and risk crashing so I had to run in my bike shoes which never works well. Got to my bike and decided to look for my watch band which took even more time.

Not train for 8 hours the day before the race so I could run.

Goal was to go as hard as I could and hopefully average 20mph. I accomplished this. Took a while to get up to speed since we started right by the rollers. But the down was fast and fun. We basically had 3 lanes to ride in and no traffic. After the figuring out the turns on loop one you could go all out the rest. There was not mention of "no drafting" but I still tried to avoid it. Ending up getting lapped on around lap 2 by the leader where were flying. Race ended up being won by a 16 year who simply was flying. My goal was to take my feet out of my shoes before tranition but since I did not scout the course before hand I did not know where the turn off the course was and transition came up too quick so I had to run with bike shoes on again and did not work well this time either (Lesson #2 learned - scout the course).

See "What would you do differently" under the Run section.

Still not knowing where my watch band was I tried looking one last time. No luck so I had to run with my garmin in my hand the whole run. Other than that t2 went well.

I took the bike pretty hard so I was not sure how the run would go. Plus since I had no idea what to expect other than it was on a trail I just took it as a nice training run. I actually felt pretty good starting out but once I hit the woods and saw the trail I thought I would take it safe. It was not a horrible train to run on but I am no mountain goat. It only takes a small pebble to take me down so I took it easy especially on the declines. Mile 2 was basically all uphill. I was able to run much better up the hills than down them. Came out of the wood feeling pretty good and hit the road to the finish running.

Not run on trail 3 weeks before IM and See "What would you do differently" under Run.

Went back to transition to try and find watch band. Then went to pool to try and find it. Finally found it sitting next to one of the lanes (Lesson #3 learned - use rubber band to make sure band is secure or leave it in T2 bag in Kentucky). Ate some food.


See "what would you do differently" under the run section. I was simply tired from the day before and did not want to do anything completely stupid to get hurt.


I had a good race. Weird thing is usually if you look at my performance in each disciple I usually finished in a pretty high % of the swim and bike and run in the worst. This time my swim was the worst. I think that had more to do with alot of young "swimmer" type kids killing my average. Definately helped me work so bugs out after not racing for 1 year before IMKY. I know a few things that I need to definately remember.