I was planning to take it easy because I hadn't been swimming much but the swim really sucked. We had to tread water for about 5 minutes which got me more tired then I expected. Navigation sucked and I was all over the place. I kept bumping into a guy near me and couldn't get away from him. I got really tired and flustered in the middle and had to do a little breast stroke to get things settled back down. Pulled it together for the last 150-200 yds but it was too late at that point.

Not hurt my shoulder working in the yard and take a lot of time off...

Long run from swim exit to transition.

I had all my things in trash bags to keep them dry. This slowed me down and I also took time to dry off my feet because the run through transition was a swamp and my feet were covered with mud (not just wet). I seem to suck at transition but all things considered I've had worse T1.

Someone described this as "unrelenting rollers". I thought the course was great (or at least the part we did). The hills weren't too long or too steep but enough that some people struggled a little and it seperated people out. I think I could really excel on a course like this.

Dismount to transition was a swamp.

Same problem as T1. My stuff was in bags/covered up which slowed me down. Also was jogging slowly out of transition and could probably have picked it up a bit.

Calf was a little tight for the first half mile and I end up settling into a 8:00/mile pace. Should have pushed it harder. Ran way to comfortable.

See above

Bottle of water and chatted with a couple of guys. Then had pizza (not very good) and a bannana. As soon as it started raining again I packed up and rolled out.


Got flustered in the swim then let that carry over to the rest of the race. Never really pushed myself on the run. The plan was to have a solid bike then push the run but I let myself get comfortable and just trotted it out.


Can't fault them for delays due to rain but they waited a long time to tell everyone what was happening what the new plan was.