The first 250-300 were mostly spent trying to get into a rhythm. I noticed that once I got comfortable, my arms hurt, and I had trouble with turnover. My stroke was slow because of it.

Probably go harder. My swim is still my weak point, and I never really know how hard I can go, but this time I felt like I didn't put enough into it.

My feet were super cold and numb. Coming out of the water you have to run up this long sidewalk to transition, and pounding on that concrete didn't help. My fingers weren't working to well, super cold.

Nothing.

I probably picked up more than I lost on the bike... there was a group of about 7 of us all close together about 5 miles out. I ended up falling back a little bit, and in my opinion the rest of them rode way too close to one another through the rest of the course. I'm happy with this time. I am way ahead of where I expected to be on the bike at this point in the year.

Nothing.

Quick transition. I lost a shoe coming off the bike, and I stopped momentarily to go back, but a volunteer grabbed it off the course. You had to run down this muddy hill back into Transition. I had a good quick change.

I was fumbling around with two flasks on the way out, just leave 'em next time.

It starts with the gradual hill, which was killer for me. My feet hurt so bad at this point. It took my a good mile into the run before I felt good. The second half of the course is actually a little bit longer than the first because of the way that they set up the finish line. By two miles I was cruising and felt really strong.

Again, I had two flasks leaving transition, dropped one, and just couldn't decide what to do with the other. Normally I just tuck it into my shorts waistband, but they weren't tied tight enough so I ended up carrying it, and I hate having something in my hand when I run. I guess make sure I tie my shorts tighter before the race starts next time. Oh, and I need to do more bike-run bricks, or at least put in a mile or so after each ride.

Some stretching, put on some warm clothes, dragged all of my wet muddy gear to the jeep and threw it all in the back


I dunno. I'm not good at this part. I'll have to think about it.


I was disappointed with the post race. Last year there was tons off food and all kinds of it. This year they had oranges, oreos and chex mix set up near the clubouse building. Then they had some catering company that was grilling hot dogs, burgers, etc. As a participant, you could get a hot dog or red beans/rice for free, everything else had a price tag on it.