I again managed to seed myself a bit slower than I should have. I got caught up in a pack of 4 swimmers taking the entirety of the lane at about 200m. Finally got past them, after getting pretty beat up. After that I just turned on the heat the last 50 and pressed on ;)

Seed myself faster. While I was pretty close to spot on with my estimation, many of the people in front of me were a bit generous with their assumptions.

Pretty good run from the pool to transition. All in all no problems though, I got to the mount line, hopped on and started out. Feet in the shoes took a second or two longer than I had hoped as my shoe got smashed down on itself, but no big deal.

Someday I'm going to take it a step farther and go for the flying mount, but I admit it's still a bit intimidating.

I'm going to say I had the fastest bike split... in the results, one guy is ahead of me, but it says he did the course in 18:xx (32mph)... which I think is highly unlikely unless Landis/Armstrong/DaveZ are taking up sprint tri's. So yeah... fastest bike split.

I pushed it, pretty hard. I went blind into it (no powertap... or even watch) so it was just a TT effort. I knew my legs weren't feeling all that hot anyways, so my run wasn't going to be amazing or anything, so why not burn up the bike ;) No mechanicals, and I felt absolutely awesome out there.

Nothing.

Well... I want to try getting another couple inches of drop on the front (going to be tough... need an ergostem) to try squeezing some more "aero goodness" out, but otherwise, I dunno... have a 300w FTP maybe ;)

Ok, so I know we don't try new stuff on race day... but I felt like swinging my leg over, riding on one side, and hopping off / running through the dismount line. As it turned out, worked great! Sometimes, Fortune favors the bold/idiots.

Nada. Things went well.

Started off not feeling all that hot and never felt better until crossing the finish line. Nonetheless, I managed to keep my place and even pass some people. All in all, it was an alright run after a hard bike on tired legs.

Still need to run MORE. My run is certainly still my limiter.

Played around, took the bike back to the car, checked standings, etc. Nothing too special.


Time. In the water, in the saddle, on foot. Things are getting better, but there's still a long way to go.


Very good race. Lots of friendly people, volunteers, etc. Well set up overall. RaceDayEvents always puts on a good show.