Frustrated by this swim; had really hoped to kick butt on this but I ended up about 20 seconds slower than last year. Can't account for it. TSW watched the whole thing, said I never stopped, stroked and breathed pretty consistently throughout. I don't know, felt like I might've started out a little fast and my breathing became a little labored. I know I got passed by a couple, but I think I also passed a couple of swimmers myself. As a pool swim, it was pretty stress free.

I had a plan for this but never actually followed it, ended up going out too fast. Settled more into the plan on later lengths but I think I was already moving slower by then.

Sat down to pull on my socks before heading out so this was pretty casual. So I'm pretty surprised by the time here; expected much slower.

Nothing, this was good. Race plan had no accommodations for transitions, wasn't going to worry about them. That I did fairly well was a pleasant surprise.

Overall pleased with the bike. Forgot to wake up the power meter before starting, so i have no power info; would've been nice to have an idea how that measured out. Tried to ride steady, did incorporate one 15 minute harder effort into the overall ride; felt like I pushed pretty good during that. Given my run performance, though, I'm wondering if I pushed too hard here. Although none of the hills were particularly bad, they came one right after the other, and were long enough that they bled off the momentum of the preceding downhill pretty fast.

Happy with this bike. Am wondering, though, if my effort here burned too many candles that I needed on the run.

Another reasonable transition. Did have to take time to tie my shoes, but everything went smoothly enough. Was interesting to be the first back to our rack off the bike....don't think I've ever arrived at my rack in T2 and been the only bike there.

Average transition for me; having to tie shoes added a few seconds.

Poor run and worse than expected.. Think I did better last year on less training! Doesn't make sense. Maintained a pretty even pace throughout, even did a few harder effort intervals of 3-5 minutes in the second half, so really thought I'd do better. As mentioned previously, wonder if pushing too hard on bike impacted me here. Never felt extremely uncomfortable on the run, so that's worrisome. Couple of days after race I began to wonder if this is first indication of age catching up to me. Not yet ready to accept that.

Not sure. Need to evaluate how I do in my next race, which will be a bit shorter, see how I feel after that.

Sucked down a bottle of water, walked around a bit.


Overall conditioning, I suppose. Age maybe? I'd expected better results because I've been doing structured training for about five weeks now, compared to last year when I'd not even started anything beyond off-season maintenance.


DAR puts on a great race and this was no exception. Only hiccup is the late start resulting from Daylight Savings Time, forcing a delay in the swim. TT swim start, of course, means I don't go off until an hour or so after that.