Felt very good about this swim. Lined up at the front, dolphined my way in to the flat harbor and found mysef #2 in my wave at buoy one. Soon passed that person. It was a point to point, with large triangular buoys making tem relatively easy to sight. It's hard when the wave in front of you has orange caps and the buoys are also.... orange.

Passed a number of people in the wave ahead of me, as well as a number of white caps, red caps, yellow caps, etc. Found myself swiming in and around people from earlier waves. Trying not to swim over them, but that was frustrating. Nearly got kicked in the gut from a breaststroker, but saaw it just in time, felt his heel brush across me....

About 1/2 way in, decided to slow a bit and maintain, so I wouldn't come out of the water trashed. Exited the water about 11:15, but then had to run the 500 yards, mix of soft and hard sand. Thought I was first in my wave out of the water, and was determined not to let anyone pass me. Thought no one did, but I believe there were one or two guys at my wave's racks when I got there........ Ended up somewhere in the 12 minute area.

Get better at running in sand after the swim

Could have been a little faster. Nothing particularly went wrong, just too methodical. Bike jersey went on easily.

There was a backup at the T1 exit timing, they made us go in single file, endd up walking waiting for other people.

More practice

Mostly flat, on a wide 6 lane highway, the one they use for the LB Grand Prix. Passed a bunch, got passed by a bunch, some people can just go really fast without seeming to work very hard. First tri with aerobars, rather liked them, very comfortable.

What I HATE is the 13-15 year old kids who can keep up, one even on a mountain bike that sounded like it had a raccoon in heat stuck in its spokes, keeping pace almost the whole leg. As he passed me and another guy, I said "boy it sucks to be passed by that". We traded passes all throughout. Frustrating.

This course should have been super simple. It was, but there were four inclines total, over a causeway. Ended up granny gearing that.

Much much more cycling base

Again, too methodical. Decided to run without socks, which saved time, but I didn't switch over the speedlaces from my prior shoes, which cost some time.

practice

I thought recent run work would make this feel better, but it stll feels so slow. I see other people passing me with muh higher cadences, and I try to get there, but can't do it. Calves started to hint at cramping at the beginning, but never really did.

Actually passed a couple people that were not walking, that is a first for me. They only had the 2 mile marker up, so it was hard to know where I was. Soon after 2 miles, I picked it up a bit, and even re passed people that had passed me.

Don't have the splits yet, but I think it was about 29:00, which is actually not bad for me. I actually started to not enjoy it during the run, which is typical for me. 5K just feels so far after the swim/bike. I just have to put my head down and do it.

Need base training

Walk around, talk to my wife, talk to a couple friends, eat a little.

Slept poorly, up at 5, and a tri, I was wiped. Wendy and I went for breakfast, than I came home and napped for nearly four hours!


Extra weight, slow running.


Pretty good race. LOTS of cool volunteers. My goal was 1:22. Hit 1:24:54, so not bad. 490 out of 1001. Solid MOP'er. I misjudged my cycling ability, and need to speed up the transitions. It's a nice local race, and actually glad I did it instead of Malibu. I will do it again next year.