I started off fairly strong, and thought I was doing a good job swimming, as there were plenty of other swimmers around me for about the first 150 meters. But then I must have made a left turn or something and found myself having lost contact with my group and having to correct my course.

I need to continue to push myself on the swim. I seem to drift into an easy stroke that must be too slow. I need to keep pushing. Keep sighting.

Sand everywhere. I think I need to bring a little pan for some water to step into during transition to clean my feet. And I need to lose my socks. Do I really need socks for the bike? And I need to rethink my laces on my bike shoes. I have straps and laces, do I need both? I'm going to start riding without the laces and see how that works out.

See above.

I wanted to push myself on the bike, and I did a fairly good job at it, having my best ride ever (17+mph at 10.7 real miles). Still, in comparison to everyone else, my bike is weak. A heavy man needs a big engine. I gotta work on my engine.

My chain came off about 1/2 mile into the ride. Wasn't a big deal getting it reset, but it probably cost me about a minute, maybe a little less. Not sure if it hurt me that much though, as the adrenaline rush seemed to get me going.

Went fairly quickly. The race website doesn't show the actual T2 times, it just includes them with the run, but I'm guessing it took me about 60 seconds to make the quick change to my running shoes, although that would be a record for me (1:01 in my 1st tri, 1:10 in my 2nd).

I didn't feel good at all, not for about 1-1/2 miles. The last half mile, I started to feel better and picked up my pace a bit, but not much. I would have like to have been about a minute faster on this run.

Other than my last event (one week ago), I haven't done a brick workout in 4 weeks. Not smart. I need to do more bike/run bricks.

Got water, walked around, got more water, walked around some more.


Me. But actually, I'm happy with this event overall.


Very disorganized from the start. Very nice people running the event, but I think they need more organization or more help, or both.

I wasn't getting a medal for anything but my wife was in the DU. So we waited around for the medal ceremony. Race director tried to end the medals before handing anything out for the DU. Then he seemed flustered by the whole process even though there was a whole table of medals right behind him, waiting to be handed out. Amusing and annoying.

But hey, I'm just glad the event was there at all. I mean, they had a course, a clock, lifeguards, police for the bike route, and signs for the run route. If they just worked on getting the event off on time and getting the medal ceremony put together, they'd have themselves a good event.

I'd do it again next year if they have it the same weekend in the same location.