started back left, couldn't find anyone to draft so just stayed about 20yards outside of bouys to avoid traffic, had only a few incidents of folks veering off to the left in front of me to deal with.

Same old suck swim performance. More work in the pool over the winter.

Was a clean transition event so had to take a little more time to put goggles and cap in bag. 4th overall in T1 so it was fine.

open bag up more so getting goggles and cap in is faster.

Goal was to ride to 150bpm ave HR like River Cities. Quads toasted from the trail half marathon I ran the day before so it was impossible to get HR up where I wanted. Roads were wet from rain. wet chipseal was a little sketchy and I had a few slight fishtail incidents in the turns, also gave me white knuckles on the descent after the turn at 42mph. Course was a little long, Garmin had it at 24.9miles. Had feet out of shoes at 24 miles thinking the end was near.

If this was an A race I wouldn't have run a very hilly trail half marathon the day before. Ride course the day before to know where T2 was.

I did not survey T2 so I had know idea where to rack my bike. Eventually I found a volunteer who was waving me over to my spot. One complaint I have is the T2 pavement absolutely sucked. Had I surveyed it prior to the race I would have known where to rack my bike and hopefully noticed that it was extremely painful to walk on the gravelled pavement in barefeet, and impossible to run on it in bare feet.

Had I surveyed T2 I would know where my rack spot was and would have stayed in shoes until racking the bike.

Tough run course, one of the olympic course legs was to a culdesac marked with cones and looked to go down into a dirt trail which I ran down to find it was a dead end, turned back. A few bitch hills that were as bad as trail run I did the day before. Wanted to get HR up to 160 but once again legs were trashed from race day before so wasn't able to get close.

Eat, drink, light stretching.


Half marathon the day before. Wanted to abuse my legs the week before my A race so that was accomplished.. Now 5 days of recovery.


One of the best produced races in yhe DFW area. This was innagural event and light on participants. Everything was first rate except for gravel in T2 area and single beer limit. Wish roads would be smoother then chip seal, was a very challenging course with tough hills. Hope they have it again next year.