Thought I felt strong in the water. Pushed hard and after the last buoy I was feeling it - hard to breath. I could feel the current pushing me and felt the water being pushed up my nose as I was swimming. Pushed on. Noticed lifeguards pulling a couple of people out of the water in front of me, swam around them (as did everyone else).

Nothing. This weeks training in the pool was crazy and it's my peak week for Racine. A great combination of wetsuit/current/wading-wave start and I flew. I'll write this up as a crazy good thing as I'm not nearly this fast - ever.

I didn't strip out of my suit as quickly as I could have, so my T1 time should have been about 20 seconds faster. I struggled getting my wetsuit into the transition bag.

I killed it on this bike. Left it all out there! I pushed hard when I could. On the back side of the island the wind hit you in the face like a ton of bricks. Speed dropped considerably. But still, at 22 mph avg is great!

Great transition for me!

I really had to wrap my head around the run. My body was tired but I knew that I was capable of a faster run than last week. I held a solid pace and after about a mile I started to feel better so I picked up the pace. I need to keep my mind on the finish and not about how winded I feel. I know my body can handle it, I just need to wrap my mind around it. (at least that's what the PHD told me last year at during the Vo2 testing...)

Rested and stretched. Found myself amazed when initial splits were posted! I had to analyze the data from my Garmin and compare all of my times together.... sure enough - the swim time was right. Craziness!!!