Swim could have went better, but I was happy with it. I had some of same breathing problem as first race, but was able to push through it. I started at back of my wave and didn't have any problems with room. Finally settled down last half of swim and went much better. I wanted to do under 40 mins and did that so no complaints. Did feel one of those little flying fish on my calf at one point that scared me a little :-)

Just more swimming training. I've only been swimming for 5 months, so I will get better.

Much better than last race. This included about a 100y run on wobbly legs. No problems with getting cycling jersey on this time (last race the zipper had inverted). Just took my time and had the items stacked in order to put on.

Maybe get tri shoes already on bike and get a tri top, but I wanted to wear my Make A Wish jersey this race.

Bike went very well for me. 3 problems. First was after pouring accelerade in to aero bottle, I dropped it and lost about 1/4 bottle of it. I still had another bottle of gatorade though and had already drank a bottle of water. I also got a bottle of water at aid station that I ended up carrying for the run. Second problem was on second half the bike would skip the gear I wanted so I had to go low cadence of 80 in bigger gear for a while and then lower gear at 100 cadence for a while back and forth switching either when legs got a little sore or breathing hard in high cadence. Third was the HR monitor wasn't working ob bike so had to go on RPE. Not a real big deal, but would have liked to know that data for future reference.

I did a good job of hydrating. I had to re-hydrate from swim and I new the run would be very hot. I went slower on the causeways than in training since I knew I still had to run and it wouldn't make a big difference in my overall time. I also stopped once to give someone a C02 cartridge. I asked if they needed anything when I went by.

Just more bike training to get up over 20mph at lower HR. Only been biking 6 months so it will come.

No problems other than volunteer had to remind me to get race belt with number.

Nothing really, just practice to get faster.

I got off the bike around 2:03 and thought that if I could do 10min miles and push last mile I could break 3 hours. That lasted about 1/4 miel. Man was it hot!!!! I could only run about 1/4mile at a time before HR sored to 170 and would have to walk to get it down. Did this the first 4 miles. It seemed like it took forever to get to the first mile marker. When I got there, I was like 5 more of these :-) Every once in a while I would think about those Make A Wish kids and that hlped me to keep going. It was hot and my HR was high. I carried a water bottle from bike it was so hot. I had it refilled twice and got two cups over head and drank two cups at 5 aid stations. My jersey was hot, but wanted to wear it since a lot of people had pledged money for this race to Make A Wish. Did I say it was hot yet :-)

I saw my wife around mile 2.5 and she ran with me a little ways encouraging me. That really helped. Then saw daughter and parents. This was a long time for them to be all be out in this heat and I really appreciated them being there.

About mile 4 coming down the first time over causeway, my HR finally settled down and I was able to run most of the last two miles. Just walked at aid stations and one other time before last time over causeway.



Get IronWish tri top instead of cycling jersey. More run training. The thing is, my legs were fine. They aren't that sore even the next day. I just don't have a good aerobic engine yet. So will do some run focus this summer with low HR runs to get ready for the Disney Oly in Sep.

They handed out cold water bottles at finish and drakn it and walked while talking to family. Found some grapes. Not much food other than bagels and banans and grapes.


just training. I've only been doing tri training for 6 months.


After my first sprint in April, I was kind of depressed. After this race, I feel great and proud. Even though I was very slow and way BOP, I moved for 2.5 straight hours :-) Pretty unbelievable.

Great small race. Less than 300 people. IT is an USAT event, so lots of fast people there! I felt my swim and bike went as planned and the run was just too hot! Plus I haven't ran over 5 miles in a month because of getting sick and long bikes on Sat messing up long run on Sunday. Will be changing that schedule.