Not a great swim. Wind started to pickup by the start of the race about 15 mph. No whitecaps, but it was starting to get close. Rollers were coming in from my primary breathing side for the first leg, switched to the left side. Just couldn't get comfortable in the first length of the triangle. It was a big wave about ~70 athletes in a wade start. a little bit of jostling in the beginning, but it calmed down pretty quick. Got in a groove after the first turn and picked up the pace, switched back to the right side for breathing. About 1/2 way through that turn both hamstrings really started to lock up, kept pushing it to the finish. A couple of Dolphin dives coming in and then a run across the beach.

Need to work on getting into a comfortable pace earlier in the swim, probably should have jumped in and done a couple hundred yards of warmup. I need to feel more comfortable going out harder and not holding back soo much.

Good transition. Wetsuit off and helmet and glasses on and out of transition. It was a pretty narrow coming to the mount line and almost ran over the person in front of me who stopeed at the line.

It was a good transition. I could have pushed the pace on the running a little more, but the hamstrings were tight.

A little congested coming out of T1 (Traffic, bike route, and out and back run course all on the same road) it cleared up once I got up onto the highway. As I started to pickup the pace, the hamstrings really started to tighten up and had to back it down in the beginning. Shifted down a cuple of gear to try and keep the cadence high. Several false flats on the highway and the wind really started to pickup. The smoothest section fo the road was right into the headwind. Stretched out the legs as mucha as possible and held back a little. The bumpy section is rolling with pine trees lining both sides of the road. The views were awesome, when I wasn't staring at the road to try and find the smoothest route. Second lap was about the same, except the legs loosened up a little. Pushed it hard until a mile to go and then spun the legs out to get ready for the run.

Need to train on a few more hills and in the wind. Been spending too much time on river road, around the lakes, and in the cities out of the wind in training.

Nice clean transition.

It was definitely nice to run in some cooler temps. Started out at 7:30 pace and backed it off to 8:05 pace for the first two miles (worried about bonking after the last two races) and then turned it on from there. Several hills throughout, Went 7:30, 7:05, and 6:40 over the next three. I should have pushed it a little harder in the begiinning and then tried to negative split from there. The negative split plan worked well, passed a lot of people in the lsat three miles.

Should have taken it out a little harder, maybe around 7:45 for the fist mile and then started the negative split for each mile from there. It was a lot faster than I have been training, but it was also about 20 degrees cooler than what I have been running in lately.

As ususal, need more time in the pool. Need to change up the training on the bike and get out of the cities.


It was a well put on race. Overall, pretty happy with the race, hamstrings were really tight to start the bike and should have pushed it a little harder on the run. Next age group finisher was 6 minutes in front and would have had to really push the bike and run to catch him.