What a crappy swim! It took me until the home stretch to relax and get into the groove. Never felt comfortable and kept sucking in water. At least I mostly went in a straight line this time.

Still not very comfortable jumping on or off the bike. I don't trust my footing in those shoes. Part of that transistion is running up the beach and into the transistion area.

My jersey got stuck when I tried to put it on. Look into getting a tri shirt for next event.

Not a bad bike. Had a few cramps on the way out but I was able to pedal through them. The hill was tough to climb and took more out of me than I would have liked but 30mph on the downside was a lot of fun.

I don't jump off my bike in these shoes yet. Tried it once and it didn't turn out good.

Good transition. Can't see what I would want to do any different.

I was hoping for a little closer to 31 minutes, but I ran the whole time except for when I was getting a drink. I still usually suck in the water and choke when I drink and run. I'm happy I didn't have to walk at all during the rest of the race.

Walked around. We had to get in the van really quick so we could get home and get ready for the birthday party.


Lack of training especially in the swim. That put me behind (both in my standings and overall energy). This will be the summer of sweat for me.


I am overall happy to finish, but disappointed my time was worse than last year. I know the swim was longer, but I don't think it justifies 6 extra minutes of swimtime. Even if it did, that would only prove I've gone nowhere in one year. I'm going to do an oly in the fall. I must get a better time over last year.

My HRM crapped the bed on me. It would sometimes show a HR I could believe, and then sometimes give me 80 BPM - which looks like 1/2 the correct number. Unfortunately, it wasn't consistent so I can't double the
average it gave me to get the right answer.

As far as the race evaluation. What's up with no chips? We had them last year for both races. Luckily I hit the lap button on my HRM to get transistion times. Otherwise I'd have no idea.

And they learned nothing from last year about the swim course. Instead of publishing the course in advance, they try to tell us on the loudspeaker right before start. Luckily we can all just follow the crowd. Seems like there were more water stations this year, though.