I knew I would suck at swimming. Learned how to swim 6 months ago. To be honest, maybe the swim was a bit short, I don't think I'm even a 2:26 swimmer

Not a lot, I stayed out of the way and flipped over on my back when necessary.

Never done a transition before, was concentrating on just not forgetting anything. I wear socks, and don't have tri specific bike shoes, so I knew it wasn't going to be fast.

Worst part was being gassed from the swimming, if I improve my swimming it would help T1 and the bike.

I hit my goal of 20mph without too much trouble, I don't have a HR monitor but I knew it was low enough.

Drank 20 oz of poweraid in the insulated bottle and about 28 oz of water in the areo bottle.

Probably shouldn't have eaten the 2nd gell at mile 18. But that was the plan and I stuck with it. I eat a ton on training rides on the bike.

Just concentrated on not doing anything dumb. This went pretty well, not a lot to do in T2.

Would be faster with tri shoes.

Had a stomach issue when I first started, probably didn't need that last gell, it went away though. Legs were cramping as well after 3 miles, I think more from lack of training than a serious lack of fluids problem, I was drinking consistently.

I need to bike more to improve my running.

Bag of ice on my head


Need more bricks. Without a HR monitor I'm pretty sure I nailed the bike and definitely had nothing left at the end of the run.


There was post race pizza and fruit. I miss back before the recession when post race was better. I have a sweet tooth and was hoping for cookies or something.