About what I expected for the first time swim. Was unable to test new goggles the week before, so used the old worn out ones which proceeded to fog heavily most of the trip. Kind of faded the last 100 or so, but overall goal was to get the first one out of the way. Swimming is to be focused on heavily in the winter, so not too concerned that there isnt anything more time in the pool wont fix up.

Practice, practice, practice. Not extremely disappointed as I only started swimming a few months ago and it is by far the weakest discipline. We will get there. Oh yeah, and remember the body glide next time. Fortunately no ill effects, however.

This one shocked me when I looked at the race report but makes sense when I broke it down. First off, the POS old timex I had under the wetsuit's band broke. That thing needed to be put to rest and glad it at least went in action. Got out of the lake, peeled suit down to waist rather easily. Then I had a moment where I just convinced myself to relax and take it easy with making sure everything was ready for the bike i.e. socks, gel, etc. Dried off feet, put on socks and shoes, helmet, glasses. As I was leaving, forgot race belt with number and had to turn back. Overall, yeah, it was the first T1.

Learning experience. Area needs to be less cluttered, maybe have everything on the bike and more sense of urgency as tons of time to recover from swim on the bike. Think I tried to stand while taking legs down on wetsuit too. Just sit down and get em off already!

Overall a decent bike. Primarily big ring stuff with some use of middle on a few hills. Transtion from water to good cruising speed about a mile in or so. Had a few times where energy lacked but overall maintained a decent pace and was passed by only two or three riders. Took a Accelerade gel with about four or five miles to go to prepare for the run. Found out I was middle ring unintentionally for a little bit on the end which cost me a bit of speed.

Pretty happy with the bike. Maybe get down on the aeros a bit more and remember to stay on the saddle as long as possible on the hills.

Happy with this overall for the first time. Transition area was near the back of the racks but got changed, took a quick drink and ran out.

Learn more of the tricks, maybe get some Yankz or whatever they are called, pull feet out of shoes, etc.

Decent run. Was just hoping to get the first one under my belt after a tough week on the body from other factors. Pedometer went out, so was unable to monitor pace as I wanted. Slowly been working in more speedwork and think we can get sub 20's by next season.

Light stretching


Last three weeks ahead of tri included a week completely off because of the birth of the twins, a week of moderate training with a solid brick, then the flu and recovery for the taper week which allowed for little fine tuning. Overall knowledge of transitions will be helpful as little tweaks. Knowing that it can be done and that I dont need to be as conservative will help too.


I will definitely be back next year and hope to improve on my first performance. Everything is centrally located, transition areas close and liked the mix of paved and trail running. Beautiful course.