Small group for the Olympic. All the men went at once, that still didn't stop someone from swimming over me, seriously?!? If I hit someones feet, I try to go around them, not over them. Anyway, I caught up to the sprint wave starts on the second lap and had to do some navigation. Despite the course being significantly longer than I anticipated, I think I did fairly well.

Can't think of anything I would do differently. Only thing that is going to make me a faster swimmer is more practice. I tend to relax a lot on the swim and really pace myself.

Since I thought it was going to be really hot and I was doing the Olympic, I felt I needed a 3rd water bottle. I practiced riding with a water bottle in the back of my tri jersey this past week, I didn't practice running through transition. Stupid bottle popped out of there twice while I was running. Then to make matters worse, while getting up to speed, my GU's came off my bike leaving me with little nutrition for the rest of the race. I probably should be penalized 2 minutes since I'm sure they fell off just outside the transition area. Transition time doesn't look bad because these issues happened right after I went through transition.

Need to store my nutrition better. I won't attach it to the bike anymore, I'll put it in my jersey pocket. Also, if bringing that extra water bottle. I'll carry it through transition and put it in my back pocket right after I mount.

Nice ride, kept a good pace. Got a little crowded on the first loop. I actually had to put my brakes on going downhill below the dam because there were three bikers across trying to pass and I chose to wait it out before I went around them. That was very frustrating when you build some speed going downhill and then need to hit the brakes before hitting the uphill.

Not lose my nutrition in the transition area, I think that Gu would have given me a little boost.

Since I didn't have any nutrition, I remembered on my bike that I had a half eaten cliff bar in my bag to the side. Ran over and got that before running out. Other than that, rack bike, socks on, shoes on, hat on, and go.

Not lose my nutrition so I have to fidget around in my bag in the transition.

Started out a bit too quick and then had to slow down cause I couldn't keep up the 6:45 pace I started out with. This was supposed to be a 5 miler, so I guess I paced myself a bit too much. I don't like running on that grass on the dam. But I just hung in there and kept expecting the Olympic folks to have a different route back to add the extra 1 mile. It never happened and never really even kicked it in for the last .5 mile like I usually do.

Not sure. I need to figure out how to get faster. Also, I probably need to lear to leave nothing out on the course and kick it in hard for the last mile and not just wait until the finish line is in sight.

Walked over grabbed some food and beverage then walked until my HR went down.


Sinus infection and lack of nutrition on the course.


The race was well organized and well executed. I will definitely do a greenswell race again. Only thing they need to fix is the accurate distance calculations. The course was way off and it really threw me when I got on the bike and thought I was 5 minutes off my normal race pace. Also didn't like thinking that I was going on a 5 mile run and pace myself accordingly and then wind up a mile short.

Great event, woulddo it again.