Race day registration. Set up transition. Talk with friends

No warm ups

It was an all male wave, so rather than banged up at start I hung back and just tried to keep a relaxed pace. Treated like a workout swim. Only got off line once, so sighting was better.

Was too relaxed and so my swim time suffered. Came out of the swim in a comfortable state. Probably too comfortable.

Short run to transition so everyone should have had good Transition times

I put on socks in T1. That usually costs me about 20 seconds every race, but my feet appreciate it.

As usual, I rocked the bike. I had to given how poor I was with swim. It was a really hot and humid day and so I knew I would need to put in a hard ride to be competitive.

Not much. First couple miles got caught behind a slow moving truck with a big trailer and so tried to use that time for fueling. Just some bad luck there, may have cost me about 30-60 seconds.

Uneventful and typical T2 time for me

Not much

See course description

I did not try to push myself on this run. I passed my age group leader in first mile and so I suppose I was just in maintenance mode after that. I probably could have shaved 5-6 minutes by not walking the hills, but had I done that, who knows with the heat. I just wanted to finish the race without getting heat stroke.

Found the shaded tent and downed a couple of Gatorades.

Weather. No doubt about it on the run. On the swim, taking too relaxed of an approach. Combined, those two factors cost me about 10 minutes in this race.

Derek does a nice job for basically running an event without much staff. It's Your Race is awesome in that results are immediately available online. Photos are poor for this race. A photographer at the race would be a nice improvement as would better race bling....no medals for winning or completing the race. Except for the run, which is brutal, the lake is nice and clean and bike course roads are nice and without potholes.