Had a good start. There was a couple guys to my right that I wanted to get over to at some point, but that never happened. Only 2 guys in the wave were ahead of me but I couldn't latch on with them, so there was no draft. The first leg was right into the chop which made things interesting. Caught the back of the first wave about 3/4 of the way to the first turn buoy. The second leg, chop was coming from left to right, so I did my best to breathe to the right as much as possible. I was inside of the buoy line here, as I had a good line to the next turn buoy. Traffic was sporadic the rest of the way and I picked my way through. The last leg of this course is always right into the sun. I found the orange buoys pretty quickly and sighted often to find the next one. Had the waves at our back and was able to catch a few of them for a nice push towards the finish.

Not much.

So my rack was the first one right as you enter transition. Made it easy to find my rack but also meant that about 7 seconds after getting out of the water I was at my bike, without much of my wetsuit off yet. So I had to stand there doing that instead of getting it down to my waist on the way in. Otherwise it was uneventful. Grass was sharp/prickly as usual. Timing for first 75 thru T1 was screwed up so we all got 1:30 taken off our bike.

Get a better rack position!

This was a good ride for me. I've been working hard on the bike to improve in the past few months and I think it paid off. This is the fastest I've ridden this course and definitely felt strong and felt like I held my own. The second loop was pretty busy with people starting their first loop. So had to be careful.

Nothing.

This was smooth. My toes were numb from the cold. Otherwise, nothing special to report. Although I had some grass on my feet that bothered me on the run.

4/41AG
47/454OA

First couple of miles were tough as my toes were numb and I had a bit of a tough time getting into a good rhythm. The second loop was way better and I definitely negative split this. Felt really good. The temps were really good for running.

Not much. Try to get into a groove earlier! My best 10k split in an Oly.

Had some food. Got on some warm clothes. Chatted with some folks.


This was a good race for me. PR by 3 minutes and my fastest swim, bike, and run at this distance.