There are some fast swimmers in my age group. My overall % placement including men is better than my placement in my age group, which normally doesn't happen with girls. (two of the women were also former pros). I'm happy with my swim. It took :27 seconds longer than last year, but last year was definitely a shorter course (the turn bouys were not as far past the bridge). Overall very happy with my swim.

Nothing. I could spend an extra day in the pool a week and shave maybe a minute off my swim time, but for me, that time is better spent running or biking.

Transition time includes 400 m run to transition area. Did this barefooted. Ouch. Lots of gravel. I'm happy with my time here, actual transition time was 1:50, which meets my goal of <2 minutes

Nothing, I'm happy with that time, especially for a longer race where you don't want to forget anything in transition.

I AVERAGED 30 km/hour in a race!!!!! that just about sums it up for me. Great ride for me. I didn't particularly like the wind changing directions in the middle of the race. What was up with that? At least the wind wasn't too strong. Comming back up feeder road kind of sucked though. I was keeping the pressure on the entire time though since I wanted to keep my pace at 30 km/hr

nothing. This met and exceeded my expectation. I was hoping for 3:00 but figured that 3:05 was more realistic and might still be pushing it. so I'm super happy.

Good transition for me again, but forgot to turn on my foot pod until just out of transition. Oops.

I think I would have had a bottle to carry on the run. I didn't want to have to carry anything, but in hindsight, it probaby would have helped on the run.

First half went well, right on track for the time I thought I could get. The next quarter I was holding on, but it was tough, I started slipping a little bit, but the last 5K were a death march. I remember at one point willing myself not to faint or throw up and a bunch of times calculating how fast I needed to run to come in under 6 hours. timed it well and kept myself upright and paced to come in under 6 hours which was my ultimate goal. I'm capable of running a much faster half marathon than this. In my three half irons, I have yet to be able to piece together a decent run time. I need to figure that one out before I do my next one. At the finish line I felt like fainting or throwing up or both. In hindsight, I probably should have gone to the med tent. I think I was probably severely dehydrated despite drinking two cups of water at every aid station. It took me several hours to have to go pee and even then it was way too dark. meh.

I don't know. I need to figure this out.

get some bananas, drink some chocolate milk, lay down in transition with my towel over me, shivering. Get changed, drink lots, eat a burger (finally feeling better about an hour after finishing), drive home


????? Like I said above, I need to figure that part out. I was on pace to run 2:10 and I should have been able to do that no problem. Didn't work out that way for me. (To give you an idea, I death marched to 2:15 at the toronto half in may, with a chest infection in the worst race of my life - I had been training for 2:00).


My complaints from last year were taken care of, so I was happy with that. Crappy drink choice - Heed on bike and run course. It might be a good product, but it isn't readily available to be able to train with, so I did my own thing.

Overall I'm very happy with my time, just dissappointed in my run time. My lifetime half IM goal time was 6:00, and I'm thinking that I can definitely take a good chunk of time off what I did this week with some more bike training, dropping a few pounds and figuring out what happens to me on these runs. I'd say I felt better on the IM run than I did on Sunday.