The swim start was actually a deep water start, my last race at the same place was actually water about chest high but the lake was deeper this time. I was in the first wave which was nice because I new there would not be the slow swimmers in the other waves to deal with plus I would be finished before it really started to get hot out. Horn goes off and it push my button to start on my Garmin which is in a zip lock under my swim cap. I don't think I hit it so press it again, at this point it is either going or I stopped it but will never know. Swim went fine, I tried to find a rythem and not push too hard. I just want to make it out of the water in under 30:00 minutes which I believe is feesable consider the sprint I did the month before at the same lake I did in 1:50/100 meters so I would have been around 28 or 28 minutes. My sighting was a little off, I tried to use other people and not buoys and that threw me off. I got stuck around a few people that I had problems negotiated also but tried to draft, which since I don' t like getting kicked I am not very good at. Exited the water and looked at my time, :01, oops I stopped it which is a good thing since my time was around 33 minutes. Looking back I think the course was probably 200mtrs too long based on my time and other peoples times. Either way it does not matter but if I would have seen 33minutes and the distance be right I would have pushed too hard on the bike.

Not stop my watch. Push harder, I probably could have swam faster but wanted to enjoy myself

T1 time better than T1 from Metroplex sprint but only by 3 sec. Put on glasses, shoes and helmet, dang it, it is too small, my son had tightened it the other day and I forgot to check it, fix it and go. probably cost me 5 seconds no big deal.

Check ALL equipment before race

My goal was 21mph so that I could run the whole 10K at the end. Get on and check out cadence (brand new addition to garmin on friday) but it is not working, need to check that too before the race. No big deal, I did not use it in training so I won't know any difference. I try to keep at a steady pace. This course is FAST, I only averaged 21.4 the month before on the same course during a sprint so I thought I would be in trouble when my first loop was done at 21.8mph. Tried to slow down on second lap and just enjoy the day. Previous race I had taken my feet out of my shoes about a mile from the transition by mistake so I knew better this time. Approaching T2, take feet out of shoes and jump off bike while still moving. PR bike for any distance.

I probably could have pushed harder and averaged over 22mph. Other than that, nothing.

Good T2, just couldn't get bike on rack smoothly. Hat and shoes on and decide not to take bottle of NUUN since there is 8 aid stations on 10K course. Overall I was about 10 seconds faster than my sprint.

Take Nuun since the gatorade was limited and too thick.

My goal was only to break 1 hour. I had not done a long brick before this race so I was kind of concerned. Leave T1 and feel great, am running about a 7:30 pace, which I know I cannot keep up so I slow down as much as possible. The water I drank on the bike starts to kick in and I think I might need to use the restroom, but I think I will be okay. Settle down to about 8:20 pace but am getting tired. I keep telling my self to run a half mile then walk for a little bit, but never actually walk except through the aid stations. I was able to trick my self pretty much the whole run to keep going. Saw Aaron (jeepfleeb), Chris (seal123) and Karen (KSH) on the run course.

More long bricks. Also, I had never run a stand along 10K, only 5K or races longer than 10K so this a PR run.

Drank alot of water and waited for other finishers. Ate some pizza and stretched.


Swim course being too long, need more Long bricks. BTW, I look at the race results today and had I raced Clydesdale (which I am eligible to do) I would have won out of 29 people by almost a full minute. Dang it, but oh well.


This was a great race and run very well, there is just not alot going on after. Not really sure what I expect but just alot of talking after. The course it pretty easy, no hills really to speak of, but it is better than being too hard.