Swimming to me is a repeated effort at not drowning ... so any swim that gets you to the bike is successful. Had to battle negative thoughts up to the first turn buoy ("Damn, the course looks long ...", "How am I ever going to swim that far ...", "Wonder if the guy in the boat is still drunk from the night before and can get to me before I go under for the third time ...").

I knew the negative thoughts were stupid and beat them back as I settled into a groove during the long straight away. Ran into a dead fish - with my face (ugh!) - halfway through this segment, but other than that it was largely uneventfull.

I conscienciously rounded the buoys wide in order to avoid the cluster of people thinking that the extra yardage was better than having to fight my way through.

The swim in from the final turn buoy was longer than I thought ... and was made even longer than that due to some poor sighting into the sun. Swam through globs of people that just plain ran out of gas at the end and were struggling with the last few hunder yards.

Train more. My stroke was inefficient, choppy and not at all resembling the smooth unified motion of TI.

Think I have to revert to remedial TI drills, something to think about during the off-season.

I really worked on lighting a fire under my ass in transition. While better than previous transitions, there is still another 45 seconds to shave off.

Not double check everything prior to unracking bike.

The bike course starts out uphill and continues that way until mile 3 or so. The time trial start spread out the field so that were no real bottlenecks.

The course took you from the state park to the rural roads leading over the interstate to and through downtown Lavonia and then back.

If there was a a stretch longer than a two miles without a hill to contend with, then I don't remember it.

Train more on hills, focusing on hill repeats.

Pedal stroke felt clunky - especially from the bottom to just past the top. I used to feel the stroke more in my calves and need to get back into the habit of 'wiping pooh off my shoes' to negate the 6 o'clock dead zone.

Halved my T2 time ... not sure how others are able to do it quicker, but I envy them!

Go faster ... just not sure how?!

Legs felt dead getting off the bike ... the hills just thrashed my leg mucles. Took until mile 2 or so to get my stride.

Wanted to on several occasions, but did not walk the course other than 2 drink stations - and that was to ensure that I was able to drink the full amount.

Finished the run with a negative split - not because I was holding back on the first half, but because my legs felt som bad getting off the bike.

The last 1 miles was an all-out redline run. Zone 5 all the way with my heart thumping in my throat and lungs breathing fire.

More brick on a more consistent basis. There is no reason why I shouldn't be able to do at least a 15-20 minute run after each bike ride.

Legs started to sieze while at the TNT tent, so jogged out to find two of my Mentees that I was concerned about ... found each with a smile on their faces as they made their way to logging their first triathlon finishes


Sprint work ... I am stuck in the 7:30 to 8:00/mi range.


Another successful event by GA Multisports ... hope that they can alter the course enough to prevent the problems with the cyclist and runners, but other than that it was a very smoothly done race.