They put us at the water way too early and we stood on the beach for about 30 extra minutes. Not happy with that. Once in I felt pretty good. The course was clearly longer than they stated, which was fine.
At the end (strange) some guy kept hitting me and apologizing in the water. Figured he would have stopped after the first 2 times.

I went a bit wide on the entire course, so I think I would have tried to get closer to the buoys and the course lines.

T1 times were included in the swim.

I had trouble with the bike mount. No big deal though.

I felt okay at best on the bike. I didn't spend a ton of time in the aero position because there were way more hills than I expected.

Learn the course ahead of time.

Slow for me. The transition area was very tight, so I had trouble sorting my stuff out with everyones swim gear that was thrown on my stuff.

I felt like absolute crap on the run. I think the lack of sleep and the fact that I ate way too little, way too far ahead of the race caught up to me. I felt very slow.
Cool thing is I got to run side by side with Karen Smyers for a little while. Then she dusted me, haha.

Better rest and nutrition.

Light stretch and a bagel.


tired


Really cool race for its second year. Big Elite and Pro field. Cool to race with some of those people at such a small event (800 racers). Would definitely do this race again.