I think I swam more than the listed distance. I found myself wandering quite a bit.

I would stick to a method on sighting the bouy. I did a sort of random whenever I though I was getting off course bouy check. The result was me being off course by 20-30 yards followed by a very questionable correction. Good thing was I spent most of the swim by myself.

Pretty tame transition. No fancy leap on the bike and pedal while putting my shoes on.

Follow a mental checklist on putting my gear on/off. I kinda scrambled to put my gear on and take my wetsuit the rest of the way off. I think practicing the process and going over it in my head would have helped a lot.

I don't know what went wrong. I felt good on the bike and even passed quite a few racers with fancy tribikes. I pushed hard and attacked the climbs with vigor. However, 35 freakin minutes later I was off the bike and cramping up pretty bad. 35 freaking minutes! I damn near killed myself and I though I was cooking way faster than that!

Hydrate! Eat something! Anything to prevent the hell of hamstring cramps that my run started with.

Holy cow hamstring cramps suck. Whoever you are Mr.Cliff Shot, you saved my bacon. Some extremely good Samaritan gave me a gel pack while observing my obvious difficulty in walking. A thousand thank yous!

Hydrate and eat something. Get some quick draw lacing system for my F Lite 230PKs.

Four times serious cramping. Had to stop each time to try and get my leg to unlock. After the fourth I slowed my pace a bit and waited for everything to settle down. The aforementioned gel pack and a cup of water seemed to help and by the end of the first mile I was running pretty good. By mile 2 I was back on track and by the finish I felt certain I could have pushed my pace from at least the halfway point.

Hydrate and eat. Listen to my body more. Go No.2 before the race.

No stretching. Staggered over to the masseuse tent and collapsed on a massage table.


Poor hydration schedule. Didn't eat enough prior to and during race.


Very good competition with awesome people running it and participating. I highly recommend this event and if I am able to, will attend again next year.