Got into the water about 10 minutes prior to the start and felt fine. As soon as the gun went off to start, my open water freak out happened agian. I couldn't get my breathing down at all and for some reason was scared. I have put a lot of time in the pool and know that I can swim, but for some reason when I get into OWS I freak out and loose all my confidence. Very disappointed in the swim leg.

Practice OWS a lot more and hopefully not freak out in the open water.

T-1 was good, very pleased with the time, was a little disoriented out of the water and very upset with my performance but was able to get a good transition and get onto the bike. Had a good spoke just steps away form the bike exit.

I was pretty happy with the T-1.

Started to feel really good on the bike after my swim. Decided to push it a little more on the bike to make up some time. Started to pass some people and was able to climb hills well.

Came into T-2 and noticed someone racked their bike in my spot and over my run stuff. Had to squeeze my bike in and manuver around my bike to get to run shoes. Overall a good T-2

Take in some Gel or fluid during.

Felt good on the run, thought I was going about 10/mile but finished strong. Walked the water station and got in some fluid.

Very pleased with the run.

Walked to Transition and got my stuff together and then went to the finish line to wait for a friend to finish.


Open Water Swim- really need to figure out why I am so freaked out in the open water.


Enjoyed this race, first one in this series and first sprint i ever did. My goal was 1:30, which I was off of by 4 minutes, not to upset about that since I did horrible in the water. Very pleased with my Bike and running. Just Open water swim was horrible.