First time with tri top, so got to wear HR strap during swim. About half way got out of breath again. I felt like I was going at a controlled pace and was back of wave, so not going too hard. Look at watch and HR is 165. No wonder I am out of breath. I am out of breath! I've got to figure this part out! It is messing up rest of race. It took half of first loop on bike to get HR back down. Navigation ok for most part, but twice rescuers had to yell at me because I was swimming straight out to sea :-) Rounded buouys good. Biggest thing was didn't get passed by other waves this time! Elite women right behind me so was expecting some of them to pass me.

Figure out high HR on swim.

T1 went much better than last 2 races since had tri top on. Coiuld have went a little faster, but HR was so high. At top of stairs from run u pbeach HR was 176, so didn't rush it.

I just got my tri shoes in today, so might try the shoes already on the bike trick next race.

I wanted to average 20mph on bike, but had head wind going out of T1 and HR was already high. Had to let it come down some. Second loop I averaged 18 going out and 23-25 coming back! Passed a number of people on that last half loop. Would have been able to do it with average HR to start. Alos during second loop it felt like my rear tire was going flat. I could feel the valve stem bump. I even stopped to check it and it was fine. Maybe something was rubbing or something. It went away in a couple mins. Not sure what happened, but when got home, my front tire was flat. MAybe slow leak there? Was nauseous first loop from gel and salt water. Didn't drink as much as normal, but I don't think it hurt me. I also didn't have any gels on the bike.

Lower HR from swim :-) Have I mentioned this yet :-) :-)

Long transistion. Time includes run with bike. Felt moved very good and even remembered race belt!

With new tri shoes, learn to get out of bike shoes on bike.

I didn't actually go for it as planned, but ran the run instead of all the walking needed in last 2 races. Paced much better. I really wanted to break 30mins. At the 2m mark I picked up pace some, but really got out of breath and had to slow a little. I cam around corner towards finish with 1:28+ and I didn't see the finish get discouraged because didn't think would break 1:30. Went around next corner and saw finish about 200y away. I actually half sprinted the rest of this distance and passed about 4 people. I just wanted to break 1:30 not pass these people. When got to last person, I check to see if could pass and finish well ahead so would mess up the finish photo and was able to get out of their way.

Push a little harder.

Got bottle of water and walked some. The got a muffin.


aerobic engine! I wasn't even sore. I felt like I could have gone much longer at same pace


Great race! One thing was I didn't realize they had a mini-clyde division (185-199). I would have placed second in that category. Oh well, there were only 3 comptetitors anyways, but would have been nice to place since I might not ever get that chance again.

My nephew was doign the kids tri and he didn't start to 11:30. Was supposed to start at 10am. Only complaint from race. My race was great. Just too long wait for kids and no real food while waiting. HAd 6 pieces pizza finally at 1:30pm after finishing race at 8:30 and waiting around in hear forever. Volunteers were great, well organized and great course.