Nerves and lack of wetsuit training cost me on the swim out, once I got turned and my breathing controlled I turned it up and caught a lot of folks that passed me early.

Working on breathing under stressful conditions. I train in a pool exclusively due to my location and breathing is easy to regulate. I am now simulating the breathing needed for wetsuit swimming and should be much better next time.

Very short transition to the ride, I did have my shoes on my bike and successfuly got my right shoe on quickly. My left shoe fought back, but I did get it on without having to stop.

On this short of a transition I should have just wore the shoes.

I stayed in my comfort zone for the ride guarding against blowing up my legs for the run.

Train for short steep hills, make sure my shifters get all my gears clean. My second lowest gear wasn't useable, which impacted my climbing.

Because the transition was so short I kept my shoes on and ran with the bike.

Nothing

Good run, legs were fine so my plan to "not blow them up" worked. Ran a solid negative split and passed a lot of folks that passed me on the bike.

Drink more on the bike. Maybe carry my hydration belt, I used the water/gatorade stations and I don't train with gatorade.

Drank water, packed up.


Lack of wetsuit experience and open ocean swim experience. Just need more time in the saddle to improve my bike.


Great race coordination, everything was on time! Plenty of volunteers (said thanks to many of them as I went by). The gatorade was actually mixed well, I don't drink it but it was diluted enought so as not to be too surgary. Post race not much really going on, but you are in Santa Barbara figure something out! Great Race Highly recommend to anyone thinking about it.