This was my first Tri and very first OWS and it showed. Not being able to see where I was going bothered me, plus the traffic got to me as well. I got a little panicky not being able to see, then with all the other swimmers knocking into me, I started to breath heavy, this made me even more panicky. It took 3/4 of the course to settle down. Good thing the water was cold, otherwise i would not have had a wet suit, the wet suit really helped keep me up. I am really disappointed in my swim, in the pool I have roughly 2min 100m pace, I knew I would be slower in the open water just didnt think I would struggle as much as I did.




I will be adding as much open water, lake swimming as I can to my work outs.

My next event has an 800 meter swim (no wet suits)

Was a little more winded then I expected I would be so T1 took a little longer than I thought it would. Think if I had not had such a bad time on the swim, I would have done better in T1, I was still a little shell shocked from the swim.

Did pretty much as I expected in the bike, the course was pretty short and relatively flat. I didn't have any equipment issues, so all and all the bike was pretty good. Had a goal of 16.5 mph for the bike.

Maybe push a little harder at the beginning.

I felt a lot better in T2 having gotten over the disappointment of the horrible swim.

Felt better the 2nd half of the course, and was able to pick up the pace a little. My goal for the run was to hit 8 minute miles so I did pretty good here.

Went home and mowed the yard.


Panic in the swim. My goal was to finish in 1:15 so I was a little more than 7 minutes off, almost all of it can be attributed to my bad swim and its affects on me in T1.


This was my first race so don't have anything to compare it will but overall it seemed very well organized. I plan doing 2 more Playtri events this summer.