Probably, one of my best swims ever.

I started at the front and I drafted a pair of feet for about 700-800 yards. The girl I was drafting from was fast and swam in a straight line, which helped me a lot. I passed her for the last 400-500 yards as I wanted to see how I did by myself (I was using this race as a training race). I swam faster than her, but I kept going left and right. I need to improve my navigation.

Not much, other than learn how to swim in a straight line.

13/216 (OA) and 1/21 (AG)

Very fast transition, finally!!! I make sure to keep my transition area clean of stuff. Got out of the water, run fast to my bike, ate a gel, sipped some sports drink, put helmet on, grabbed bike and run!

I didn't put on gloves or socks this time. It saved me a significant amount of time and I was perfectly comfortable.

It was quite a long run from T1 to the mount line, glad I didn't run on my bike shoes, although it was painful to run on rocks and tree roots.

Probably, eat the gel and sip sports drink while on the bike rather than in T1.

One of my fastest bike splits ever. Thanks to getting out of the water early, I was able to ride close the fast guys in my AG and I forced myself to stay with them. I didn't draft, but by "staying with them" I mean that I made sure to ride at a pace where I didn't lose sight of them. I always had somebody to chase.

I started a little slow. I have to learn to get on the bike and start going at my goal pace rather than trying to warm up my legs.

73/216 (OA) and 12/21 (AG)

This was the worst part of the tri for me. I didn't have lock laces on my shoes, so I had to put them on and tied them. Anything else was quite fast, but I lost quite a bit of time here.

Bring shoes with lock laces

WOW!!!!! I never run that fast for 6 miles!!!

I still can't believe that I put a sub 39 min 6 mile (that would've been close to a sub 40 min 10k). I felt very strong during the entire run. I think I got into the run knowing that I was close to be on the podium and I run hard.

Best of all is that I got negative splits in ALL my miles.

Nothing

Eat, drink, put my flip flops, stay cool, and talk to people and friends.


This race came after a 20 hour training week. No taper and very heavy legs going into it.

Would I had a better race, had I tapered properly? I don't know. I had the race of my life and I am very happy with it. It wasn't an A or B race, it was a C race and I took it as a high intensity training day, but it worked out great!


Good organized race and 100% for charity. Great people, great venue, I will repeat!