Swim was a tale of 2 laps. 1st lap was a good lap, only went off course slightly and held a pretty good pace. Only real issues was when I made the 2nd turn to head back to the beach. Had a lot of glare coming off the water and had difficulties seeing or finding something to sight off of.
Then came the 2nd lap, all went downhill from here. Made it to the 1st buoy alright but then went off course, way off course! Seemed with every stroke I went more off course. Took a lot of effort to find where I was or needed to go. On top of the direction issue, I started to have problems with my goggles get foggy. When I attempted to locate the buoy I couldn't see far enough to find it. Between not being able to see and being off course I expended a large amount of energy to get back on course. By the time I made the last turn I was exhuasted and barely moving. I started the second lap around the middle of the pack, by the time it was over I was just about the last one to get out of the water.

Better goggles, or some kind of anti-fog cleaner. Probably would of been better to use my normal pool goggles rather than the shaded ones.

Solid effort on majority of the course, effort was kept pretty even. With both laps coming in at almost the same time. After the less than stellar swim, I wanted to start the bike out strong. 1st several miles I went out at 21mph pace, not the best of idea's but still fun. Realized around mile 5 that HR was over 155 and my quad was starting to feel the effort. Since I still had another 20 miles to go I figured I should hold back the effort. Pushed the HR down to around 145 and tried to hold a steady pace. For the most part the bike leg was uneventful. I did manage to pass several other riders and since I started so far in the back there was noone to pass me :)!
Around mile 17 was where the only issues came up! At this point was where my back started to cramp up some, wasn't major but enough to create discomfort. This lasted for the next 5 miles, until I got through the majority of the rollers, After this I increased pace and was able to stretch a little and the cramp went away.

Not much I could of done differently. Effort was good and I finishsed with plenty of life left in me!

Not sure what happened here or if the time is correct! The course time keeping did not keep my transition time or run time. So by going from time on watch, which I know was started right out of transition,this is the transition time. The transition was large and I was on the complete opposite end from the bike entry, but still dont think it should of been this long.

Since I haven't done this distance before I wasn't sure what to expect out of the run. Came out of transitions and tried to settle into a pace, felt OK but when I checked the watch my pace was under 7:45. I knew this wasn't going to last so I pulled back some and tried to stay around an 8:30 pace.
Mile 1 (8:37), 2 (9:12), 3 (9:02), 4 (10:04), 5 (9:34), 6 (9:26)
It took everything I had to keep moving, legs were turning to jelly around mile 4.5. A lot of mental work during this time, lasted for maybe 0.5 miles and I was able to get back to what seemed normal pace. Of course what seemed to be a normal pace was extremely slow!

As always lack of swim ability! I must spend some time learning to navigate!