Swim was rough lots of bumping, didn't get in an open area until about 250 yards in.

go out harder

run is about 250 yards up a hill onto pavement, got to T1 breathing hard from the run, had helmet strap issues had to take helmet off and on a couple times, just took way to long in there should have been about :30 faster

Well if I was one of the race directors I would have had this area set up better and spent more time on making sure straps and equipment was ready to go. That is alright I was not looking to do anything special at this race, just wanted to do the course to see if we missed anything as directors.

Road hard tried to stay at 24-25 mph, but just could not hold it, I would fall back to 20-21 for a couple minutes recover and go hard again. It seemed like the people around me were doing the same thing.

not much I pushed as much as I could without burning my self up for the run.

not sure what T2 time was timing company did not capture it was quick, feet were still wet decided to go without socks

nothing good transistion

started the run with 3 guys all in my age group in front of me, I ran with a rival and friend for the 1st mile and 1/2 and talked, I was just enjoying the day and observing the race, I was then passed by another friend who is also in my age group and I think we all picked it up a little, I went a little harder and passed 4 guys in my age group and two went around me, I was catching the guy in front of me and we sprinted down the strench but just didn't have enough to catch him, he beat me by 1 second to take 3rd in my age group.

nothing I could have race harder but I was content on enjoying the run and day, I was not really worried about placing, I was more concerned on how the race was being run and if the course was how I thought it would be. I would have felt kind of stupid giving myself an award anyway that would have be akward.

ran with some friends, the winner of the race and Greg a fellow BT'er for about a 1 in a half, then went back to my RD duties.


nothing just didn't go hard


I thought the race went off well, I was happy with traffic control, course marking, and there was great fan support in which I wasn't expecting. For the first year it went great, we had a few gliches but those will get ironed out and this race can only get bigger and better.