Swim was Canceled due to raw sewage being dumped into the Potomac River the night prior due to heavy rains and flash flooding.

Actually Swim.

T1 was a run into transition in lieu of the swim due to the river not being suitable to swim in that morning.

Maybe run in a little faster. My back was pretty sore which slow things down a bit. However, i didn't waste time with putting my gloves on in the transition area and that seemed to help some.

Felt Pretty good on the bike. Might have been able to push a little harder but I had a real solid run effort so I can't complain too much.

Probably could have pushed a little harder on the last 5 miles or so of the race.

My back flared up in going into T2 and made me wonder if I was going to be able to run at all. Just getting out of T2 and finishing the race was a major accomplishment.

Considering how bad my lower back hurt just getting through T2 was accomplishment enough. Could have been better but all things considered it was good enough.

Real solid run effort. First Triathlon 10K that felt like I was running the 10k rather than surviving the 10k. Got passed by a far amount of folks on the run but I was able to concentrate on my race and just run my race. It mut have worked because the finish time was just off of my 10k PR time.

Maybe I could stepped up the pace a little earlier.

Walked it off.


A bum lower back killed me in transition and getting off of the bike.


Nations is a good race and it is well done. The problem is that it is in DC and is somewhat held hostage to the limitations that the City puts on it. For example the sewage issue in the river was beyond their control. They don't have any other options for the swim location so what are you going to do. It would be nice to have the race be more in the monument core but that would impact the city too much and would never be approved by the city.