Best swim time at this distance. Really happy with the results. Waves coming in may have helped.

Stick a little closer to buoys and start further to the front of the pack. First OWS of the year, I didn't want to have a panic in a bunch group.

Decent transition. Hard mucky water getting out of the lake. Uphill run into transition, but not bad. Kind of hard to spot bikes. Balloons marked w/ numbers, but due to wind, I couldn't read them.

Visualize where my gear is better before I leave transition.

Everything went pretty well. Didn't quite get the time I wanted, but having to battle the headwind on the way out seemed to bust everyone's time down a bit. Happy overall. Took a couple miles to slow my HR down out of the water and transition. But by mile 5 I was feel smooth and starting catching guys who blew their load out of transition.

My EFS had too much mix in. Made my stomach upset. Cut back on that. Not much else different. Happy with how it turned out.

The racks are kind of low so I was lucky I was back before my neighbors so I could slide it under sideways and rack on my side of the racks.

Not much. Spot my rack better.

I took it a bit easy as I'm 4 months out from ACL surgery. Usually I push the downhills more, but I stayed conservative, getting good footing. Course was nice, but hot. The vegetation seemed to hold in all the humidity.

I just need to get back my running speed since surgery. Happy with this race as I took a conservative approach to the run.

Walk around in the area after the finish chute and stretch, had some water, chocolate milk, soda, chips, and fruit. Tried to have some of the free beer. I can't handle beer right after a race, so I only had a couple sips then ditched it


My lack of run training and my knee. Everything else went off well.


Very good mix of local and big race feel. Decent size field and some good competition. I really don't have any complaint. Thought there should be water out on the Oly bike course, but I had two bottles which was plenty. But for some newbs or slow bikers, the heat may have gotten to them. Not sure though. But for faster athletes, everything on this course overall was good.