I had a rough time on this swim. its a very shallow start so I tried to jump in early like the real swimmers to not tire out my legs too much. Faceplanted and ended up with my goggles filled with sand and water. Swam out about 10 yds blind and stood to clear things up. There was a lot of contact and I wished I had wore my wetsuit. Some of the contact was a little crazy and someone was pushing my rear end down (legs along with it). Someone took an elbow from me pretty hard. I hope no real damage. Not sure how it happened but I felt the hard contac with my elbow on someone's skin, not neoprene. Things cleared up a lot after the first buoy, but overall I had a pretty crappy swim.

Go back to wearing my wetsuit when I'm not biking to the race. Its very discouraging that I had the same (or worse) time as last year, when I've done so much more swimming

No wetsuit so could have been a little quicker

I really like this bike course. The hill at the start is a bear and so are some of the rollers, but its a nice mix out there. Starting so back in the pack from the swim, I passed a lot of people in the first 5 miles, then a few here or there. I managed to go hard without letting up too much given my bike fitness. My speed went from 16 mph last year to 19.5 and no one passed, so pretty happy

Keep on trucking. And bring more water. I only had my 20oz aerobottle and I could have used a little more on this one.

The run was rough, but no one passed me and I passed a few. Took about 1:00/mile off of last year. Woot Woot!

Go a little fast. Not much, just a little. This one hurt.

Hurried home to take the baby off of E's hands so she could take the bigguns to a party. In retrospect, I wish I had been able to stick around and pick up a little age group hardware :-) Oh well, I don't want to make it any move of a big deal that I'm racing so many Sundays.


Great race, with a nice long bike for a sprint. I knew I would PR since I was brand new last time, but am thrilled with taking 20 min off. Hope to keep dropping time, but the increments will be getting smaller from here I guess.