I felt like my swim (usually my best event) was awful. First 50 m was shallow, and although a lot of people waded through, I swam. It was pretty annoying because I kept running into people who were walking! After that, couldn't see the buoy at all for the first portion, so just drafted off some people. Swam and navigated well between the 1st and 2nd bouys. After the 2nd buoy, swimming back to shore seemed like it took FOREVER. Navigation was a bit off at one point, but generally okay. Just felt slow.

Still need to work more on navigation - have a tendency to swim to the right when I'm tired.

There was a really long run up the sandy beach after the swim, which really winded me. Moved pretty slow in transition - Nate watched me and agreed that I could've moved faster. No problems, just slow in general.

Need to learn to get on bike while moving - my bike start was agonizingly slow.

I've worked a lot more on the bike since the Danskin in July, and felt much better prepared here to push it on the bike. My gps watch gave me a time of about 42 min which is what I was aiming for. They had cones set up for the right hand turns which made me slow down a lot on some of them, but overall I felt okay. My feet were really cold from the swim, and felt numb for most of the ride, but I don't think it affected my performance.

Want to continue to train more on the bike - it made me feel a lot more prepared at this tri. Get clipless pedals and shoes so my feet don't get numb!

The guy behind me coming into transition fell - think he must not have clipped out of his pedals in time!! I felt okay on this one, but felt like a slacker for walking through the transition area instead of jogging.

Need to learn how to dismount my bike quicker. Move faster in general.

My main goal here was to run the whole run since I walked some at the Danskin. My feet were completely numb for the first mile and a half which was weird - don't know if it's because they were cold from the swim, or because my shoes aren't good. Anyhow, ran through it and felt okay for the 2nd half. Didn't walk at all. According to my watch, splits were 9:09, 9:15, 9:20 for the 3 miles.

Have feeling in my feet?

Stretched a bit, hung out with all the BTers for a while :) Grabbed lunch and drove an hour and half home.


Transitions were slowest. Otherwise, I actually felt pretty good about my effort on this one.


This race was fun, and generally well organized. Gotta love free beer after the race! The swim start was a bit of a mess (course and lack of bullhorn) and I think the chip timing didn't work as planned (I understand they did the splits manually?).