This was a pretty good swim for me. I loved the time trial start!! It went very smoothly and there wasn't so hard to find a clean line to swim. For whatever reason, I had a better start than usual and felt good from the beginning. Usually it takes a while for me to settle into my stroke. I also felt better coming out of the water. I could give credit to the wetsuit, but I did the swim the day before in it and had the usual slow to start/exhausted on the exit that I normally do.
I do wish there would have been more buoys, I had a hard time in practice and on race day on the swim in in the same spot because I couldn't see the buoy.

Had problems with my googles. I had problems the day before, but thought it was my goggles over the swim cap. Since I had problems today too, I think it may be time for new goggles.

Got a little stuck on the wetsuit, but not bad for the first time in a wetsuit.

Bring a towel to wipe off my feet. I forgot one. I'm not sure what else I could have done. It felt like a slow transition, but there wasn't a whole lot more I could have done.

The start was hard! It was a long hill into the wind and my legs had a tough time transitioning into this. Once I got up the hill I was fine though and it looked like everyone was experiencing some of this because I wasn't passed by any other women and only a few men.

I tried not to push too hard to save my legs for the run and I must have done pretty good b/c I still felt strong at the start of the run. I know I could have gone faster on the bike, but this may have been the best pace for me to save my legs too.

Practice starting with shoes on the bike. More hill training!

I wore socks for the run since it wasn't just a 5k. This was probably a good decision, but who knows? I also was a little low on gel shots on the run. I wish I had had one more.

Somehow even though I knew my bike was right by the light pole, I forgot which rack and which side of the rack it was on. Need to pay more attention to this.

Pack an extra gel shot, just in case...

The race site says my rank is 10. However, there is one person who has a rank of 1 and a run time of just 29 min. Given that the overall winner of the whole thing didn't even run that fast. I'm thinking she lost a lap either by choice or timing malfunction.

While my time looks bad compared to my other events, this is actually a great run for me and a PR for a 10K with or w/o a bike and a swim before it. I worked hard to get not overdo it on the bike and stay nourished throughout the event. I felt good getting off the bike and starting the run.

Obviously, I need to work on my run. This will be a winter training focus!!!

My run!!! I also got a little of course on the swim and had some goggle issues, but everything else went really well for me. I hit my predicted 'hopeful' times dead on and exceeded it on the run by 4 minutes.


I was very happy overall. This was my first Olympic and went even better than expected.