Very interesting second experience in the swim in open water. I was able to be a little better and crawl most of the time. The thing that was weird was that my arms got tired more than me being out of breathe. This probably has to do with the fact that it's the second swim of the year. Pool opened today, wahoo!

Just more swimming. I was actually pretty happy with my performance for the time I had gotten in.

Just slow. That swim kicked my butt. Super dizzy and socks are bad news on wet feet.

Can't wait till I get more swim practice.

As stated above, bad course and bad planning, something that marred the race.

My legs were just not feeling it. My HR was really high after the swim and would just not calm down. I drank well and spun well but had no power and just didn't feel all that great.

I am pretty bummed the weather was so bad the week before the race and my training slacked. I needed to keep going in training better.

Pretty quick and easy.

Not much, just be faster.

I felt okay and my Newtons were rocking, but I could've done better. I should have been able to push harder and drop 30sec per mile at least.

The whole race I needed to feel better. My bike/run were a disappointment.

Just walked around and took pictures of my buddies


I didn't eat enough before the race or the correct things. Training before my race was also off.


Really bummed about this race. Not only was my performance not as well I hoped, but race organization was not very good. One turn on the bike course wasn't marked except for a cone in the middle of the road. Next the race was very late and not well organized. On the run the Sprint turn around had a small sign off in the side of the road and behind the support car. The girl at the aid station wouldn't speak up and didn't tell anyone it was the sprint turn around. Lucky for me, someone was complaining about it (he had ran an extra 1/2 mile) so I turned around. Jeff (one of my friends) actually ended up running the Olympic! run in his very first triathlon because of the poor marking. They also didn't give out awards for AGs except overall male/female, masters and athena/clyds (which where also weird as clyd was 180 pounds and more. That makes me within 5 pounds of being a clyd..right). Oh well, I'm just happy Ryan and Jeff are now triathletes!