My time in the water was 20:38 from start to out of water. Add a 200 yard plus run from the beach area to T1 and where the timing mats were located. Although they said the swim was 800 yards, I really think it was a little further. Nevertheless, I had no problems in the nice warm water. Also, no problems with other swimmers.

Nothing

Long run from the swim area to T1.

My computer chip strap was apparently on the wrong ankle, so the girls at the mats told me I had to switch it before I left. Not sure how that works but it did slow me down about 20-30 seconds.

Very hilly course and being that I live near the beach, I didn't train enough on hills. There were some very long ascents (not sure the overall distance, but it felt like four or five miles going up). I guess the good thing about going up hills is you get to go down them also. Although my overall time was fairly slow, I had some very good speed on a couple of the hills.

Find some very long tough hills around my city and train harder

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I think the bike course took its toll on me. When I started my run I actually felt okay. Once I was off road the hills just took a lot out of me. My legs were very fatigued. Thankfully, there was a downhill into the transition area and a fairly flat course after that.

Need to train going from a hilly bike course to a hilly run course

Fluids, bananas, grapes. Stretched a little. Felt no real discomfort after the race.


I don't think I was in that great of shape to ride and run the type of hills that I faced in this race.


Great race. There were plenty of volunteers and along with the cops they all did a great job.