HOLY CRAP that swim SUCKED. First off I apparently didnt take a good enough look because I decided to swim the everywhere there was water. First off with the mist I couldnt really sight JACK. Make matters worse I was wearing typical yellow tint goggles, this strategy didnt fare well for sighting yellow buoys. Green caps piece of cake. So I started pretty slow-head still "EH whatever" and swam in a jumprope pattern I think to the first buoy. after a stint of breastroke mind you, because I felt lost. Swam a little better in the middle got a rhythm but noticed Im pulling CRAZY left, even when trying HARD to swim RIGHT-forget straight! Then-this is a little fuzzy-but I swear I made 3 Right turns. Either eay its home stretch time. Still cant really see and Im now just trying to draft with people-hopefully they know where we are going. I realize the flashing is a camera taking pics of people exiting-SWIM THERE! So I see a yellow buoy and swim "straight" at it also thinking its the last buoy. So yeah its not and I have one more before the exit. that swim felt SO LONG.

Not swim

So in my "awesome preperation" I didnt really pay attention to where my bike was, becuase I thought it was further down the rack. Yeah it wasnt-I overshot by about 20 bikes-ugh.

another walkthrough

Very nice ride. My only problem is I had a "rattle" from bump 1. Couldnt really recreate it unless I hit a bump, or "popped a wheelie" Stopped at teh top of the first hill to examine the bike. Bars-ok, brakes-ok, stem-ok, wheel, tight-ok. Can't recreate it while standing still. After about 6 miles I realize that it is the "Cap" on my speedfill rattling-FINALLY! So now its on. I pushed with alot of riders around me. Just a really good ride.

Start faster, stronger.

I usually like to go sub-1:00 but today just wasn't my day. Socks for a 10K probably broke that for me. No biggie, blisters on the run cost more time in my opinion.

Just hurry more.

Legs were garbage in frist mile-which in my opinion took longer than usual. GREAT volunteers and great course. 2nd mile legs came back.Running in tunnels is weird, not something Ive done before and I just felt weird. Didnt enjoy the switchback incline over the tunnel. Mile markers at every mile was GREAT. but Im pretty sure either 3-4 or 4-5 was off. I had a slow mile followed by a FAST mile. So whatever, the distance combined seemed all correct, just one marker maybe sooner or later than shoulda been. I must have seen a total of 6 water stations-out and back-which all had great volunteers. I'm the "hit me in the face" with it guy-and volunteers love doing that it seems so Im good with it. Aim was a little off early on though-haha.
GREAT run-was actually a PR for me!

Nothing-loved every minute of it.

Light jogging, stretching. Cheering on teammates and friends. food and drink. Pack it up and head home. ALOT of cops in the area.


Prep


The mist was it-after that all pt cloudy and pt sunny. Wasted mental energy for me.