Felt like garbage due to "pre-race routine" items above.
Legs were like lead.
Started to feel better after a mile.
Plenty of friends to talk to on the way out and back. All events started at the same time on the same course.
However, I returned to the transition area BEFORE the first overall women's 5K finisher for the stand-alone 5K came in.

Um, maybe not drink the night before, and sleep more.

Great. I've never done a run-to-bike transition. It was easy.

Nothing. Totally satisfied.

I really felt like I rode this well. It was great to be on my tri bike again. Ah. The winds were very challenging. The tailwind only came on a rough section of road. The rest was headwind and crosswind. But I was very aero. I pushed the whole time, and after a certain point it felt better to push than to relax. My legs were really spent from the day before, but I never felt impending total fatigue or failure. Mentally I stayed with it the whole time. I was trying to catch this girl in a pink jersey. She was riding a roadbike and was pretty upright, and I was sure I could catch her. At about mile 20, I finally passed her (after getting a little boost from seeing my dh, who was volunteering). Unfortunately, 2 minutes later she saw her parents and got a boost and passed me back. I stayed about 100 feet or so behind her (give or take) the rest of the ride and never could catch her, but she slowed down as we came into the school. My flying dismount flew right past her non-flying one, and I entered transition a second ahead of her. I gained several seconds on her in transition, too.

Nothing. Did the absolute best I could.

Great. My one shoe got stuck, and then I was messing with my watch and walking out of transition and someone said, "Hey, no walking," and I was like, yeah, I guess you're right and just hit "Lap" and started running.

Set up Garmin right in the first place to do multisport.

I was amazed I was able to keep this pace. My knee hurt the first mile and then loosened up. The girl in pink was behind me coming out of transition, but passed me in the first 1.5 miles. I was joking with her. She stayed several feet ahead of me the whole time. I passed Doc at mile 1.5 and he was coming in, which would have meant he opened up a 30 minute lead on me, which I couldn't believe. Later I learned he made a wrong turn on the bike course. I also knew there were people I had passed who were right behind me, and I thought I was still in the top 10, so I was letting that pressure of them behind me drive me forward. When my legs got tired I said, "That's OK, I'm running with my core, not my legs," I would tighten things up and check my posture and lean a bit forward from the ankles.
Coming onto the high school property for the last 8/10ths or so, I tried to kick it and catch the girl in pink and the guy in white. My legs said, "NO" and my stomach said, "NOOO!" so I decided just to try to maintain, since my pace was really good and I already missed my 3:00:00 goal.
As I came into the finish, I saw dh and he called my name. Another guy was standing there (as I was passing the guy in white) pointing to a guy in black. He said, "C'mon girls, catch him. He's an Ironman." I said, "Hey, I'm an Ironman!" and just saying it I guess gave me what I needed and I took off and flew past the girl in pink with such ferocity she didn't even give chase, and I tried really hard to catch the guy in black, but he turned it up. I yelled, "I'm coming for you!" but it was too late - he was already in the chute.

Nothing. I really feel impressed with my performance here. I thought I would fall apart on the run considering the 75 miles of hill riding I did the day before. (And the drinking and staying up.)

Ate pancakes.
Smoked cigar.
Talked trash with friends.


Drinking.
Staying up late.
Riding 75 miles of hills the day before.


Could have used a volunteer at the turnaround at 1.5 miles. Some people were confused about what they were supposed to do since there were 4 races happening at the same time.