The course was a counterclock wise swim, which for me is not that desireable since I breath on the right, plus my navigation skills suck. My wave had about 70 people in it and I positioned myself in the front middle, which ended up being a good spot. About half way to the turn around buoy, I looked up to sight and realized that I was about 50 yards to the right of the wave...NOT GOOD. So I worked my way back to the turn buoy, and was fine after that. I was able to draft off others which seemed kind of wierd, and almost like cheating since they don't let you draft on the bike, but I figured, why the hell not, since there is no rule against it. I found a few peoples feet and followed the bubbles!! This was the fastest that I have swam in open water (by 3 minutes), and I attribute 99% of that to my new best friend...my Orca!! One thing I did notice when I came out of the water was I did not feel tired, So I guess at the next race I will ahve to push myself a little harder

Learn how to sight!!

Overall, nice course, a few hills that I did not expect, but the downhills were AWESOME, I checked my computer, and my top speed was 33.4mph...now that is flying!! Also, recorded my fastest bike split at 20.77mph!! Passed a few people, got passed by a few

train on more hills

Great T2, quicker than I thought I would be

Nothing

Great run, 1st mile 7:45, 2nd 7:37, at this point I started to do the math on what it would take to finish under 1:40:00, which was 5 minutes faster than my goal pace of 1:45:00, 3rd 7:38, 4th 7:58, sprinted the last 1/4 or so and past one last guy...I thought I was going to die the last 100 yards, but I could hear him coming from behind me I thought " I'll be damned if he is passing me back"

More bricks, train to run faster

yeah right


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