Either the course was long or I swam a bit all over the place. My garmin had me at 2294 yards, and taking the ladder climb out of the swim time, I swam 1:23/100yds pace which I'm very pleased with. The swim felt great. I tried to stay on the feet of the fastest guys in my age group but decided I better dial it back a bit and ended up swimming by myself almost the whole race.

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This is where my race got interesting. It rained the whole bike ride. My front derailleur cable slipped loose around mile 15 and I was stuck in the little ring the rest of the way. This resulted in me spinning a lot higher cadence than I was used to. I also wasn't able to push the power I would have liked on the downhills. In the end my power was way down of my goal and I was quite a bit slower than I had hoped. And I think the high cadence affected my run.

Learned a lot about bikes this day. I had a 11/23 cassette on the rear which is great for the flatlands where I live, but not for the rolling hills of this course. I basically never come out of the big ring on my rides. This course required me to switch back and forth between the big and small ring a lot. My front derailluer basically never gets used so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there was an issue with it.

Also, I should have gotten a different cassette so that I wouldn't have had to get out of the big ring. These aren't big hills, just rollers. That would have made shifting and keeping my power steady much easier.

Don't really remember at this point. Would have liked to have been faster.

Started the run feeling great. Started out a little fast, took me a couple of miles to dial in 8:00/mile, which I carried for the first half of the run. The second half I started walking aid stations which added time to my splits, but I was still running the same pace when running.

By the end my legs felt just awful, nothing like I'd ever experienced before. I think it may have had to do with the high cadence I had to do on the bike, but not sure.

Not sure. I felt like my fitness was there for a 1:45 run, and definitely off of the low power from my ride. I need to push through the aid stations without slowing down to hit my goal times.

Equipment, but also the fact that this was a few weeks after my A race, so didn't have the proper build then taper into it. Also just overall fitness, I need to continue to build my base.