I passed several people who missed guessed their 300m time but settled into a zone after the first 150m. I caught a large gulp of water on the 3rd turn and had to cough on every stroke for about 50m. Hard to get breathing back under control after that.

More interval pool work on speed for longer distances. Above race pace for 200yards, etc.

I must not have been the only person who had a hard time in T1 since my AG rank was 8th out of 64. This was the worst T1 I can remember for me. I got out of the pool and headed into T1 and completely could not find my bike, even after looking right at it, TWICE! Then I had a hard time getting into my shoes on the pedals. The rubber band holding on shoe broke as I jumped on the bike and the shoe started swinging around and ended up upside down under my foot. Overall, both misqueues cost me 20 seconds.

Don't brain fart on the bike location and practice speed transitions more on the bike.

I felt out of sync on the bike and I could not find the right gear. The 95 degree heat and near 85% humidity didnt help. I ended up on the big chain ring pushing a heavy gear.

Move down to the smaller chain ring and spin faster, especially towards the end.

Good T2 but slower than T1???? I don't know what took so long in T2 unless it took me longer to put my shoes on than I thought.

Not sure

What can I say? I suck at running and all the work I did on the swim and bike slowly slips away on the run. I was in the top 6 heading out of T2 and ended up in 17th place. I ran the whole time, just slowly. My legs felt fine off the bike, I just didn't have any extra energy to go faster.

Ice cold wet towels and shade. Nothing really worked with a heat index above 100 degrees.


Heat, humidty, 6 mile run the day before?


There is nothing fancy about this race, except for the great race t-shirts and the easy course. I just love doing this race since it was the first Tri that I ever did (1999). It's worth doing for a first timer or beginner in the Houston area. It's easy and well run.