Well, where to start....this just went bad the second I jumped in the water. And besides this just being my second OWS after learning how to swim four months ago. I just got hit, smack.. .run over..I couldn't relax for about 500m of the race. I had to stop about three times just so I can get some oxygen and calm my self down. But, overall I'm glad that I didn't quit after swallowing all that salt water.

Just start way in the back of my wave and more training.

I was surprised that my time wasn't longer than 2m because I did struggle with my wetsuit and also felt drain from the swim.

Practice jumping into bike with shoes already clip.

My goal for the bike portion of the race was to simply to pedal as hard as I could for 11 miles. I know that's not a good strategy after reading a lot of race reports...but, I just wanted to see how much improvement I had made in a month since my first race. And what I learned after I saw my time result was..nothing. Exact time as my first race.

Don't know if the swim just exhausted me so much that I sucked in the bike or just that I needed to be more realistic in expecting too much in just one month of training.

Everything went good except for getting my bike on the rack.

Nada that I can think.

Running is my strength so I knew that I would still be fine even if I went crazy on the bike. But, it wasn't that smooth as I thought it would be..the 1st mile seem like it would never come and my legs were just gone from the all-out attempt in the bike.

None. Just drank some Gatorade to see if I can get that salty taste out of my mouth from all that salt water that I drank early on.


I think that I just need to be more realistic in what I could accomplish in just my second race and four months of training. I don't have a background in swimming or bicycling so I know that I need time and work at it.


It was a good organized race in my opinion. That being said this was just my second so I can compare to others. Hope to return next year and doing it again(except for the swim)