The new suit was comfortable. The water was chilly, so I was glad I was not wearing my old short-john. On the second loop, I found myself drifting away from the line between the buoys. Sighting was hard because of the fog, so I'm not sure I could have done better. Maybe following other swimmers would have helped.

I was swimming into other swimmers often. It seems like if I saw someone beside me, I'd drift into them a lot and end up using too much energy fighting them. I shouldn't do that.

I practiced taking off my new suit last night and had a hell of a time. I think the practice payed off as I think I have a method that is not too slow. Hopefully the suit will loosen up over time. The T1 times of others that finished around me were half the length of mine. I need to practice my transitions. I think I wrote the same thing on most of my race reports last year. I also forgot my GU.

I would be faster and remember my GU.

I set my Garmin's HR alarm to beep at me when I was out of Zone 2. I was surpised that it complained that I was too low more often than too high. The course was pretty tough, the roads were wet and I think I handled it as best I could.

Nothing.

Nothing interesting here. The difference between my time and all the others in my age group was a second or two.

Nothing

I set the Garmin's HR alert from Z2 to mid Z3 and set my pace accordingly. When I had a mile and half left, I let myself go and ran hard to the finish. I considered this race practice for running a conservative pace.

Apart from the crazy bike course, the race was really nice. For second place in my AG, I won a half price entry to next year's race, so I'll probably race it again. I'm not sure if I would otherwise because of the bike course.