definitely took this too easy, but still passed a few swimmers who started well in front of me. they were starting people after the previous swimmer got 25 yards. collided with another swim who veered onto my side of the lane near the end too.

swim harder, over state my swim pace like everyone else for a better start position.

my rack was the farthest possible from the bike exit, but i still need to work on my T1 time management.

go faster

they didn't allow passing for the first half mile or so coming out of or into transition. got stuck behind some guys soft pedaling at ~15mph at the start which knocked me out of the overall best bike split; missed it by 10 seconds to the guy who started the race 2nd in the swim TT start.

nothing

once again my rack was the farthest from the bike finish. went better than my previous transitions this year, but still not where i was last year.

go faster

went well enough. i was hoping to go sub 20 on this run but missed it by a second.

go a little harder. my HR dropped for the entire second mile, so there was room for some additional effort there.

walked around


people blocking me on the bike course.


Good race and I liked the flat run course on the swamp rabbit and I thought the triple loop bike course was a really fun thing to do for a sprint race. I did not like that there was no way to verify that anyone actually did all three loops or that runners actually made it to the turn around point for the run before turning around. I also didn't like that the bike course was set up in such a way that did not allow for passing for such a long portion of the course coming in and out of transition. Not sure I would do the race again based on the lack of verification that everyone did the course correctly and allowing/requiring riders to block others.