Not as bad as I thought it would be. I couldn't get my timing right since everyone was running into each other, but there were stretches where I made some decent progress.

Work harder on OWS endurance. I didn't start working OWS until the last 3 weeks, and I really didn't push myself. Now that I've got past the psychological aspect, I think I can focus on my time.

My bike shirt was tough getting on over a wet body, but I did get into the rest of my stuff pretty easily.

Use a sleeveless bike shirt and dry off before putting it on. Would like to cut 1 minute off my time.

My chain fell off when I was climbing on of the biggest hills. Fortunately I practiced this and I only lost probably lost less than 15 seconds.

Work on the hills better. I was able to make good time on flat straightways but lost time on the hills. It would be great to maintain my lead.

Just work on overall speed. Maybe race shoelaces.

Real tough for the first 10 minutes. I walked through the hydration stops and sometimes a little too long. The last 15 minutes was much easier and I could increase my strides to make up some time. However, based on my ranking I think I did pretty good for my first tri.

Pick up the pace earlier... I'm not sure how to do this other than just continuing to work on my bricks. My strides at first seemed like I was walking. Fortunately there were many others that were walking, which allowed me to pass them up.

Just walked around...


Nothing


It was my first tri so I can't compare to others... but I thought that it was well managed and a lot of fun. Placing 22 in a field of 39 was much better than I anticipated. Now I got 2 months to train for the T-Man and improve my overall time.