Put down a realistic finish time for estimating start which ended me up behind some slower swimmers who over estimated, a real problem in the pool as you need to pass them and then get under the lane line, a fair swim, only improved by about .15 over last year

flip turns would help in a pool swim but never perfected them

no issues, pretty good transition,

expected to pick up time on the bike but the weather did not cooperate, also missed one turn and had to double back, road was really slick and there were a lot of turns, just did not want to risk a wipe out, where I could go all out the Tri bike made a big difference, can't wait to see how the bike works on a dry day race

struggled getting the helmet off

struggled with the Garmin getting a signal so had no pace time on the run, run felt good, had a good kick at the end, could have probably paced slightly faster

need to get the Garmin on track before running

found the family, waited for awards


the rain was the biggest limiting factor


Overall good result considering the weather, I wanted a 1:03:xx (after being 1:08 last year) and ended up at 1:04 - 4 minutes better than last year, 3rd in AG and 18th overall out of 285 so not bad, 50-54 was really competitive with 1st and 2nd in AG under 1 hour (same 2 guys as last year), did not pick up enough on the swim, bike was slightly better which was fine considering the weather, picked up 2:30 on the run over last year which helped