pretty good swim. kept right up with the guy who came in third in his age group, a friend of a friend. so that felt good.

had zero problem sighting. would only get off course when following other swimmers.

i started in the back as usual. with the run to the water start, there was a backlog of swimmers getting up to speed. i had to wait a bit until I could start swimming. if I start in the front, i will get passed but I won't have to fight as much.

nothing. swallowed too much water, but other than that really good swim.

since this is a two transition race. i didn't want to forget anything. took time to pack up and make sure everything was in my bag before I left.

also, put on a jacket due to cooler temps.

had issue getting my wesuit off

when no strippers are available, need to forget about being delicate. just park my ass on the ground and take off my suit.

it got stuck on my heels, and I couldn't lift my legs up. finally sat down and took it off.

did OK getting out of T1 and onto my bike and up to speed.

Need to get more bike time in. Also need to get re-fitted and change my aero position. definetly not comfortable.

without any training nothing.

need more hill repeats, and fine tune my aero position. I should be more comfortable in aero position even without too much training time.

Had an issue racking my bike. the guy next to me put his bike over my number, so I had to move his bike so mine would fit.

taking jacket off slowed me down, and had an issue with the run belt. I tried putting it on before my shoes. i can put that on on my way out of T2.

On the plus side pulling my feet out of my shoes and running in bare feet felt more natural than i thought. definetly a time saver.

not much. don't usually have to take a jacket off, and don't usually have a rack space issue. handled each pretty well considering. it sure felt a lot longer than a minute 21.

pretty good run. started out a bit too slow, got to a good pace that I was able to maintain for about 2 miles, then had to slow up. especially on the last hill.

again, no training so not much.

pacing was good. and this segment was probably my best of the day.

wandered around looking for my family.

all three of them missed me on the bike in. they were the last people waiting for bikers. I got some food and drank water/gatorade.


no training of any sort two weeks before the race. I did pretty well considering.

probably bike fit slowed me down. couldn't get comfortable in aero and that slowed me down.


Good race. One aid station on the run.

Not much in the way of post race activities. they had pizza this year, usually it's just breakfast food. although, I did notice this year they were giving food out to the spectators and by the time I got food there wasn't much left, and noticed the food was gone with athletes still out on the course.

If you like hills this is a good race. Not particularly very steep, long hills, just lots of them. But there are some great downhill sections too. Computer says my max speed was 35.