First race with bouys spread out to what seemed like as far as the eye could see. Kind of a mental game. I'm use to training at lake where I swim from one side to the other an it's a mile but you don't really see the distance.

My sighting was bad as usual..DEFINITELY need to work on it.

Keep practicing siting.

Maybe get a sleeveless wetsuit in the future.

Surprisingly my pace was right on target with my moderate pace swims. Felt strong and probably was a little faster if I hadn't had such bad sighting and went out of my way.

Transition from swim out to transition was a long jog. Need to wear my crocks to shuffle into rather than flip flops. FF are too much work to keep on and run in. First race with wetsuit. Went pretty well.

Didn't run with bike due to weird transition area. Right as you left you had to lift your bike over a log.

T1 time was 2nd in my AG.

Need to practice racking bike quickly in different ways..ie. by the seat, bars etc...

Course was a six mile loop. Congested with both Sprint and Olympic riders. One side was easier than another. Took a sip of gu on each lap...in hind site this is probably because I didn't eat enough at breakfast.
I also underestimated how thirsty I would be after the swim and ran out of water on 4th lap. Didn't push too hard after that in case I really burnt out my run.


Add another bottle of water to bike.

I don't do the feet on shoes or jumping off bike. Fell my first tri ever into T2 and haven't taken that leap.

Racking my bike needs help and would reduce my t2 time significantly.

Practice racking w/ coach prior to race.

It is beyond me how I ran a 9.09 mile. I was in pain this entire run and felt VERY slow. I thought I had a great run earlier this week in training and was disappointed then when I did the milege only to find my pace was a 9 min mile. The two don't equate.

I started my run in zone 4 and stayed there for the whole thing but never let it get too out of control. PRE was out of site.

So over all I'm right on target w/ training even in pain...I guess that's good. Really had to push some deamons today.

The massage I wanted on Sat would have helped I think but that didn't happen. Other than that I really need to take a couple of my runs to the track each month and get out of my comfort zone.

Walked down to the water and hoped it would take the place of an ice bath. Stayed with friends in Austin so I missed the hotel hot tub.


Just need to keep building and training. I was on target with all my training to date.

Pleasantly surprised to see I kept all my single workout averages when I put it all together in a Tri. I expected them to drop some. Must be doing something right. Seems like it's time to take it to another level.


At the end of the race they were suppose to hand out ice cold finisher towels and they just handed them out DRY!!! I wasn't very happy and VERY disappointed.
Did not care for the bike loops or the run trail. I probably won't be back.