I have been working really hard at swimming and this was my first OWS of the year. Unfortunately, I cannot stay on course or sight properly. I swam OK, but I was all over the place, to the point where a kayaker had to get me back onto the course. I bet I swam a lot more that .4 miles.

In reality I am still faster than I was last year!

Lots of OWS practice, lots of work on sighting and navigating around buoys. At least I'm no longer fatigued, and I can work on sighting now that the water is warm enough for OWS practice.

191/234 on T1. Not good at all.

Practice, practice, practice. I'm losing a full minute goofing off in T1.

It was great! One of the best bike rides I've done yet. The Garmin Edge 500 turned itself off during the swim and never picked up the Powertap, so I had no cadence or power data. It isn't really necessary, but I like seeing the data after the race.

Only got passed once, passed a bunch of people. Felt great the entire ride. Pacing was good, might have been able to go a little harder on the out leg.

Not much, other than learn how the Garmin works. Nothing new on race day, right?

153/234 for T2.

HTFU. Seriously.

Not my fastest run, but I did get into a decent groove and felt strong the whole way. Finish was a lot of fun, I passed some 20-something with about 300 yards to go and he took it as a challenge. Wound up in a flat-out sprint to the finish, crowd was yelling at us the whole way. Passed him about 5 yards from the chip mat. Afterwards he shook my hand and said how great it was to be pushed like that at the end. I told him you're welcome, now I gotta puke :)

Nothing other than more training. I was able to average a 7:24 pace according to my watch, which is about what I expected based on my recent 5k times. Felt really good the whole way, so it pays to be a runner!

Water and checked times. Sprinting at the end was tough!


Swim and transitions. happy with everything else. I am amused by this question though, training is always the limiting factor in my ability to go faster.


Met up with the rest of my tri team, cheered a bunch of them finishing, checked times and we found that three of the girls won their AG's. None of the boys placed :)

The bugs were horrible, we had a club picnic planned but canceled that, it was just too nasty. I soaked myself with bug spray but it didn't help, I think the gnats saw it as seasoning.

Typical gross muddy NJ lake, but I liked the bike course a lot, and the run was completely flat.