Started out fast then faded a bit every lap. I passed on the downhills and climbs but got outpaced in the flat sections.

In lap 3/4 Mayde caught up; she was on the tail of another girl. I paced both of them in the final lap of the first run. But I'm pretty sure that I couldn't have run much faster on my own.

I have to learn to pull off negative splits in racing since I do it regularly in almost every training run.

Spotted my assigned transition area from a distance. Got there, removed socks and shoes and ran to the pool.

Not sit down to remove shoes...though I didn't feel that affected my time at all.

Jumped in to find traffic immediately. Couldn't pass on left as other swimmers who were ahead were coming in my direction. Only place to pass in most cases was when reaching the wall.
Stroke count was incredibly high, in the low to mid 30's SPLs when I usually average in the low 20's!
Legs felt dead initially but so did everyone else's.

Don't really know. I have to keep training the swim. Maybe I should have taken advantage of the few opportunities I had to accelerate.

It was sort of foolish to think that a swim like this would be at an even pace.

Ran out of the pool but badly overran my transition spot. Once I found it, put on my shoes and got the hell out of there. Opted to do the second run sockless.

Left the pool, ran up the little climb and reached the beginning of the run course.

Think about my "transition strategy" beforehand, and visualize it so that all I have to do later is execute.

Started out more conservatively because I wanted to finish strong. Lost focus a bit on the second lap. Passed a few but got passed also.

Finished strong, but over 1 minute slower than in the first run segment. Though this time I managed to pull off a negative split.

Become a better runner.

Crossed the finish line and in less than 2min Mayde came running in, looking very strong!

Stretched out a bit.


The explosiveness of an event like this is something I don't train for. But, it was good to run a bit faster than expected and swim at my intended pace.

I raced for fun (no taper or specific training) but deep inside I wanted to see how my training was coming along, and I can't complain too much. Though I'm still slow, I seem to have improved a bit here and there.


A good initiative organized by friends from the pool/track in honor of a lady who died in a cycling accident about a year ago. Some very fast racers showed up too.

I had a blast and would do it again.