I was happy just to be there, knowing it was the last multisport event of a long season.

Not much. 4 minutes faster than I'd run a 15K road race 2 weeks earlier. Decent pace for me.

I had to grab my bike computer from my transition bag as I'd forgotten to put it on when racking the bike the day before, but it didn't cost me much time.

Nothing, glad I remembered the computer though.

If you were used to crits or city riding then you'd be okay. It took a while to get the rhythm of the loops and staying 'on' attention wise was important.

Maybe take the turns a bit faster, but who knows. 47 miles was pushing my comfortable racing limit.

Decently clean transition.

nothing.

Really warm on one downwind segment, but I usually drop about 60 seconds a mile on the 2nd run so I was pretty happy with my pace.

Not much. Maybe pour more water on my head on the way out of transition for cooling purposes.

Well, I got a bottle of water and poured it over my head. Then I drank Gatorade, found my best buddy and went to sit in the shade until I cooled sufficiently to go socialize, walking back to the hotel to shower & come back for my bike.


My late season attitude, my lack of running speed work, perhaps my happy to be at Worlds tourist attitude? Who knows. Had a great time & am satisfied with my finish.


It wasn't an easy bike, but heck, it's Worlds. I thought on checking out the run route initially that it was too convoluted, but it was interesting during the actual race, and there were lots of cheerful volunteers. The only complaint were the Snagajob.com party stops, where loud music and fans with noise makers were inspirational only in that you wanted to really push it to get out of range of the obnoious sound. Overall, great race.