i was behind the first swimmer the whole time. he was all over the place as far as sighting goes, but i sighted well and stayed straight. he probably swam an extra couple hundred yards. It turns out he was a 18 yr old who was a strong swimmer and I never saw again after we got out of the water.

make sure cap is on secure. i stood up at the turn around to fix my cap and then fix my goggles because i messd those up.

otherwise a good swim. It was almost 3 minutes slower than last year. My guess is the distance was considerably longer. they had to change the course a little due to swim ropes and a dock on the beach.

on the way up to transition and after i was off the beach i stepped on something. A rock or stick, who knows. either way it hurt. it was right on the ball of my right foot. I knew that was not good. i just hoped it did not hurt my run.

after that my wetsuit came off very stubbornly, but i got it off.

Brett lovaas was out of the water right behind me and he was out of transition ahead of me. He was the overall winner.

I need to move faster. bother running and once i am moving with my bike.

The road surface was horrible. I really had to hang on tight to my bars. I did not feel like my legs got loose until about half way. I was able to keep my heart rate up so that was an improvement. I got passed by one person shortly after transition, then another right before T2. so i was in 4th from the first wave people.


I still think i could hae pushed it harder.

i lost my bike shoe about 10 yards from the dismount line. i kept going and hoped to get it back after the race. (i did) However it was my left shoe and that is the side i dismount from so i had to entirely stop to get off my bike. lost a few seconds there.

the real issue was that as soon as i put my right foot down i knew my foot was swollen and hurt. I hoped it would loosen up a little on the run.

not drop a shoe off the bike.

my foot hurt. i could not fully push off with it. As far as my wave i was in 4th place. I thought maybe i could hang onto that. Also it is 2 laps so if i need to stop after the first lap then i will. But i was running a lot slower than i am capable of doing. my HR was 155-160 and normally on the run its almost 170-172

I did the best i could with a hurt foot. My body was not sore at all the following days so that just demonstrated how easy i ran, and how much more i can push it.

i waded into the lake to cool off and looked at my foot. it was pretty swollen and was already black and blue. I was pretty disappointed with the performance, so i just packed up and got out of there.

We stopped at a gas station on the way home and got Dr Pepper and ice.



Injury to my foot. i guess i need to watch where i step