First Mass start OWS, in fact first OWS with anything other than a swim buddy, was more beaten and abused than I had imagined. The swim was also a bit bigger in real life, if that makes sense.

Spend more time swimming, be better prepared overall. More time OWS as well.

Apparently I was in there longer than I had thought. Managed to get a good spot on the racks early in the day tho, and think that helped quite a bit.

Will have to work on this, perhaps making a few changes along the way, perhaps next time going shirtless, or using a tri-top in the swim

Well... Of the three events this one appears to be my strong suit. It felt good and fast, and apparently I was climbing good as well. The hill at the end got quite a few folks tho...

Work on turning at a higher speed and drinking better.
Not raise seat 2 days before race without getting in time to adjust to the change.

was in a bit of pain in the rump from having raised the saddle a few days prior, and lost some good time sitting down, then having to fight myself to get back up.

Same shirtless/tri-top comment from T1 applies, I changed from a bike jersey into a t-shirt, and got slowed up by this.
Sitting down hurt like a mofo as well. Wont do that again, and will need to get tri shoes for the bike, and a good set of runners to help smoothe out some of these transitions.

Running sucks. Managed to Run/Walk most of this course, and it didn't suck as much as I imagined. Though looking at my age group results, I've got quite a bit of work to do in this area.

More work here, like the swim.

Lots of water/accelerade, walked some, got in the water to cool down.
Pictures with the kids, they loved it too.


More training would have helped quite a bit. Overall surviving my first was where I wanted to be.


Not having any prior experience to draw on, this was a very good, very well put together race.