The water was really cold and even though I was prepared for it I think it still may have slowed me down a little. Otherwise, the swim went well.

Anytime a race gives the opportunity to acclimatize to the water I'll take it. This race, though, didn't allow warming up in the water.

The transition are was enormous, which contributed to my slow time. I wasn't exactly very fast getting out of my wetsuit either.

Practice getting that wetsuit off.

I had a good time on the bike...maybe too good of a time since I didn't do as well as I wanted on the run. I'm real happy with my time since this was the fastest I've ridden this distance.

Improve bike skills.

Since the transition area was so large it was a long way to the bike. We had to run down from the entrance all the way to the back and then back up to your rack number. I almost passed up the entrance and never got my feet out of my shoes so I ran in them through the muddy grass...that made it worse and probably accounted for some of my monstrous 4min T2 time!

I really should work on these transitions.

I've had some faster brick runs coming off a longer, yet slower bike rides, so I'm not sure what happened here. Maybe the swim takes a lot more out of you than I think.

Maybe a little better pacing on the swim and bike. But, then again, it's definitely not worth 2min slower on the bike to save 1min on the run.

A boat ride back to transition!


Probably not practicing transitions enough and not being able to work out enough the week of my taper.


About the post race activities, I'm sure they were great, but I missed it. Something came up and I had to catch the next flight home after the race. That sucked!