With the announcement of the water temperature during transition setup, I was pretty confident I wasn't going to wear my wetsuit. I've never swam in water above 74 so I really had no idea what to expect, but felt that I would be overly hot. However, when I went to test the water, the water didn't feel that warm so I decided to go with the wetsuit. During the first 500m I thought it was a bad decision as I got hot real quick and felt as though a panic may onset. I was able to calm myself down and swim my race. The loops really made it difficult to get into a rhythm since every 500m we'd be running out of the water. I know I didn't swim my fastest but got through unscathed.

I neglected a lot of swim time during my training. This just shows that I need a lot more OWS practice for me to get comfortable.

There was a short run to the transition area. Felt good running it the entire way. Started walking in transition to make sure I didn't overrun my rack.

Overall the bike felt great. I was familiar with the sprint section of the course, but not the 2 loops portion. I did know that there some good hills that I had to do twice so I pushed pretty good through the flatter sections. I knew that the bike was harder seeing previous averages through the bike being lower than normal olympics. I finished off my bottle of accelerade, took two salt tabs at the beginning and end of the ride as well as had a cliff bar.

Biking is by far the best leg for me so continue to hammer it as best as I can while making sure I leave enough in the tank for the run.

Someone racked in my spot so I had to put my bike down the rack. Didn't cost me a lot of time but just annoyed that people can't rack correctly. Had to put socks on. I know I can go faster and need to practice putting stuff on during the run out

Practice practice practice

When the run started, it was still overcast so I threw my shades into transition. The one hill near the beginning of each loop got me each time. I didn't feel overly tired but didn't want to push it too hard so I walked up the hill each time. I ended up walking through the aid stations as well so I wasn't happy about that. I actually missed my goal time by 18 seconds so I wasn't that far off the pace. Overall though I didn't feel great on the run which concerns me with Door County around the corner. My legs felt heavy by the end of the race.

More bricks. I've run a lot, biked a lot but not done a lot of bricks. Need to prep the body for that feeling. Ironically I felt really good off the bike though once I started hitting any hill my legs felt very tired.

Met the family and grabbed the free food. Good spread for a smallish race.


I went into the race hoping to break 2:45. The tough bike course really made it hard for me to hit the time I needed. Just keep on training