Felt really good going out and knew I was pretty close to the front of the wave. Found a decent pair of feet for the first 3rd. Once we hit the first buoy, that guy slowed way down. I went too hard going past him and was seriously redlining by the second turn. The last stretch was dicey. I was hanging on by my fingernails to get to the shore. Nice touch that they had wet suit strippers, never had that at this race. A spectator very helpfully called out that I was the 4th one from the wave out of the water. Made it pretty certain I was in AG contention since there were 2 groups in the wave. Unlikely that all 3 ahead of me were in my AG.

Kind of slow, relatively speaking, but since I had gone WAY too hard on the swim, I wanted to get my heart rate down a bit before getting on the bike.

Very decent power output. I may have be able to go a little harder, but I felt solid the whole time. Only had one person pass me from the AG and I caught him on the run.

Much better T2. Best in AG, in fact.

Very happy with this run. I caught the one guy that passed me on the bike in the first 1/2 mile or so. Ran strong but didn't go crazy. I think I negative split the 2 miles by about 2 seconds or so.

Got a massage and then hung out for the AG awards! First time ever placing in my AG. About damn time!


Can't go wrong with the High Five Events.