Didn't push very hard on the swim, but swam and comfortable relaxed pace. Had to pee on the home stretch and that caused me to slow down to a breast stroke, going in the water you really keep on going LOL, but I figured it saved more time then running to bathroom in T1.

Push a bit harder and pick up stroke count/cadence. Overall for my first Oly and long competitive swim I was fine with performance.

My best T1 yet, plus I had to stuff everything into garbage bag so they can transport your swim stuff back to finish location.

As always try to speed things up a hair

PA roads are not good. Course did not have a big elevation gain, but it was hilly, with plenty of rollers and some screaming downhills, couple short steep climbs.

Through my chain on one of the quick uphills and had to dismount and put the chain back on, this caused about a 3 min delay by the time I got back up to speed. Shifting smoother probably would have prevented this or not skipping so many gears on the down shift.

good quick T2

put bike in aero bars first instead of leaning bike to side to rack on seat post.

Ran my usual 9:30ish pace but was really hoping to go faster, but the hills killed me and I felt like I was running 12min miles. The course was beautiful country dirt gravel and scenic, but some of the country roads were possible ankle rollers, had to pay attention to where your feet fell.

Need to work on my running off the bike. It takes me a mile to get feeling in my toes and get my legs under me.

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First Oly and a very demanding course