Swim went very well. I was the last in my lane to start but ended up passing everyone except one guy who seemed to be holding a good pace. Decided to jsut stay behind him and draft to conserve energy. Overall I felt really good and fast. Probably the best race swim I've ever had.

Nothing. It all went well.

So i decided before the race to have my shoes already on my bike so I could hop on and put them on on the fly. Well next time I need to make sure that I put the right shoe on the right pedal! I jumped on and realized that the wrong foot was on the wrong pedal. I had to jump off take the pedals off with my hands, put them on and then get on the bike. So over all not a good transition, I probably lost a good 30 sec to 1 min.

Make sure that shoes are clipped into the right pedals!

Bike was awesome. Right from the get go I felt fast. I could definitely feel the 6 hour ride yesterday in my legs on the hills, but on the flats they felt pretty good. They said the race distance was 32k but my computer only ready 30.5k.

The bike course was 4 loops and I had ridden it before so I knew what to expect. Basically there were 2 main spots with climbs and the rest was pretty fast and flat. So I figured that I would really try and power up the hills and let my legs recover on the faster parts of the course. This worked pretty well for the first 2 loops, but on the third loop my legs really started to burn.

I kind of had to decide if I should back off or try and keep up the pace. Well last year I always seemed to have a little left on the run and never had a race where I went to hard on the bike. This was a good chance to test out how hard I could push the bike and how going all out would affect my run. I could completely blow up on the run but I figured that these short C races are for experimenting.

So I kept pushing it as hard as I could and ended up not only holding the same pace but I actually uped my average speed almost 1kph on those last 2 laps. Overall I'm very happy with this bike.

Not do a long ride the day before a race.

Not much excitment here. I undid my helmet to soon (forgot about that rule) and they made me stop and do it back up and then continue on. Got to remember that for next race.

not undo helmet before I rack my bike

Run time and pace was much faster then I expected but wasn't as fast as last year. I think that my lackof running in april and part of may as well as the really hard bike slowed me down. However this pace is miles ahead of what I thought I could run right now so I'm very happy.

The course wasn't very fun. The first half of the loop was downhill and I was flying and then the last half of the loop was all uphill and my pace slowed to a crawl. I was expecting to be passed by a ton of people on the run but only got blown by, by a few fast guys.

Run more in training.

Walked around, ate some food.


No taper, this race was at the end of a 16 hour training week and I did a 145k long ride yesterday. I'm frankly stuned that I turned out this performance under these condidtions.


Race was awesome. I did much better then I ever expected finished, 13th overall and had my fastest bike leg ever.