ugly swim. even for me. First time in a lake since the end of last season. As we were setting up transition they announce that the water was too warm for a wet suit. crap.
I struggled through the whole swim. Early on, I really wanted to quit. I could not get myself together. Lots of contact, tiny bouts that I had trouble seeing and poor direction. I kept having to breath every other stroke because I could not control my heart rate which meant I would pull off course. Ugly ugly ugly.

Practice in the open water. not worry so much about the damn swim anyway. I should just relax. The race starts on the run or at the earliest on the bike. gottta just relax about trying to race the swim.
I think that was the problem. I have worked hard on my swim and in the back of my mind I really wanted to go out and make a big improvement on the swim over my first oly last season. That backfired. But more importantly, I had a big race pr anyway.

this really went fine. most of the time was the long run out of the water to the bikes. no complaints. There are plenty of folks who raced 2:20 with my transition times.

really happy with this bike. big pick up over last season.

T2 was fine. pretty quick all things considered.

I did not expect to run this well. I am coming off of injury and just had not put the same miles in.

I took walk breaks in the second lap. I wonder if I would have been faster if I had slowed my run pace and eliminated the walks. Don't know. This was a really good run time for me though. I will take it!!!

stand in a tent in the shade and pull myself together. It took a while. I had my hr high for a long time and it took some time to come back down.


My swim was really stressful. It was only 2 minutes slower than I hoped but it was really stressful.
Might have gone too hard too fast on the run.
I am happy with this reach for a few reasons. The result is a good one for me. The bike was fast. I was able to remain very uncomfortable on the run for a long time.
Mostly, I am happy with the swim. It was a train wreck. I honestly wanted to just quit about 200M in. And it never really got better. But I kept going and eventually it ended.


I was really happy over all with my race. I was hoping for 2:50.