I started out near the front on the inside right since I breathe to the left. I felt pretty good going out to the first buoy except somehow I crossed through the traffic and got out to left of everyone by about 30 feet and had to make a big right turn to get to the first buoy. I even missed the second buoy way out to left also. I wasn't swimming very straight. coming in from the second large buoy to the beach I managed to swim a little more straight and got some rhythm going.

I felt fine with my decision to start near the front since normally I start near the back. I'm more confident in my swimming and was able to hold my own in traffic but I need to sight better and swim straight. I feel like I could have done a little better on the swim even though it was a 2 minute improvement over last year.

This transition was about what I expected. I had my T1 top off before I got to transition and just had to take off the bottoms. They came off pretty quickly and only got a little stuck on my ankles but not too bad. Got my shoes, helmet etc on and went.

Overall this transition was fine.

I felt pretty good on the bike and felt like I had a decent pace going. I was probably a little slow maybe on the hills but overall it seemed like a good ride. It ended up being 14 seconds faster than last year but I was hoping to be about a minute faster than last year.

Not sure.

This was really annoying. The guy next to me had racked his bike in my rack and had his wetsuit and all his crap all over my stuff. I had to pull his bike out and re-rack it then move all his shit over so I could find my running stuff. This transition was 1 minute slower than last year because of this.

Be faster on the swim and bike so idiots like this don't get there before me.

My run ended up being 11 seconds faster than last year but it sure didn't feel like it. I felt a little nausea in the first half mile or so and it seemed like I was wearing combat boots going up the hill. After the first mile the nausea went away and I started to feel OK and got into my pace. Only passed a few people. I was hoping to be closer to 21 minutes on this but it was OK.

Not sure?

Ate some food and drank some water and visited with friends.


I need to train harder and with more intensity


Overall I guess it was a good race since I beat last years time by two minutes but I was hoping for sub 1:25 today. T2 definitely cost me one of the minutes and I guess the other minute would be split between the bike and run.