I did horribly on this. I could not forward crawl through the chop. The side stroke and the back stroke were my friends.

Forward crawl a lot more.

I have to put my bike shoes on before leaving transition. My bike shoes are actually meant for mountain biking. I might upgrade one of these days.
I also wasted some time putting on the toe socks I wear when doing more than 5k in my Vibram FiveFingers running shoes.

Not wear toe socks. A better swim would help as well, I cramped up a little, and massaged it out during T1.

I could have done better. This was not one of my better cycling performances. I have some mechanical issues to fix.
I am thinking of doing some upgrades to my bike, if not upgrading to an all together better bike.

Perform better in the swim. I use the ride to recover from the swim before the run. Too much of the ride was spent recovering.

Shoe changes are lengthy when you use mountain biking shoes for the ride.

Not much. Just don't have the funds to get better equipment yet.

I gassed out and suffered a lot of cramping. Kept pushing, though. I did walk a lot, but I kept going!

Run more, walk less.

Just walked it off.


Had a bad day before the race. Only had about 2 hours of sleep before driving 1.5 hours to get to the race.
Training exclusively in a pool left me ill prepared for the swim, also. I wasn't ready for the choppiness.