Followed my swim plan. Got held up last couple of lanes as I began to catch up on slowing swimmers. Got a little crowded at the lane ends and the exit ladder.

Nothing, good pool swim for me.

Most of this time was the quarter-mile jog (and I jogged, barefoot) from pool exit, around transition, and all the way to my bike at the opposite end. Crazy! What's interesting is, as long as this was, I was 60th overall in T1 time.

Nothing. Pretty efficient.

Good bike for me. Started out at a good spin rate, not too hard, did 2-3 30/30s to warm up. At about 8 minutes in, I went pretty hard for 5 minutes, backed off for a couple, then repeated that until I was about 5 minutes from finish.

Not much; maybe push out of the turns a little harder.

Decent transition. Expected faster, though, given my rack spot was just inside from the Bike In. Got shoes on pretty well, little trouble. Put on hat and race belt as I jogged out.

Not much.

My fervent hope was that I could get this thing done in 33 minutes, prove to myself that I can make some running improvement. if the course had been measured properly (my Garmin shows I ran 3.25 miles) my results would reflect that, actually likely a few seconds better. Ah well...happened at Playtri event in March too.

Followed my plan pretty much to the letter but I think it's possible I went out too fast, finishing first mile in just over 10 minutes. Subsequent miles were 10:27 and 11:13. I was shocked to see how much slower the third mile was because it didn't feel that way when I was out there. So next time, try to smooth out these differences a bit...which might still end up in a similar time.

Downed a bottle of water very quickly, made my way back to my spot and packed up. That's it. By the time bag was packed I felt pretty decent.


Everything was essentially as expected. If I could just improve some on the run I'd feel so much better. But dang it, that doesn't seem to be happening!


Good little run face in a good location. Likely do it again.