The course was a said to be a triangle course. I made the first buoy and saw the second green buoy and headed straight for it. I was told by a canoe that I had missed an orange buoy and had to back track, which I did. really through me off the rest of the race. I was so upset, I was expecting around 11 minutes, not 14. I swam an additional 120 yds. I now many people just headed for the buoy.

sight better, and either know the course better or just keep trucking to the 2nd green buoy like others did.

This went pretty well. My only issue is that I am such a tender foot and running barefoot on the pavement sucks!

not much

After the crappy swim, I decided I needed to crush the bike, so I went out harder than normal. I Knew it might affect my run, but I did not care. I was able to pass a ton of people and felt fast! I stayed in aero a lot. The roads were wet with some flowing water going all the way across the roads, wasn't an issue but it made me nervous.

train more, moving to a new house at the end of April really hurt my overall fitness

I could not get my feet out of my shoes cause they were so wet! For some idiotic reason, I thought I could run with out socks since my feet were already soaked. I never run without socks! Not sure what I was thinking.

out socks on!

This run was tough because I was undertrained, made the bonehead call to go without socks, and it seemed long. My watch never picked up after T2 and the messed with my head also. The first turnaround seemed really close and I though I had it made, but there was a second turnaround that seemed to last forever. My feet were hurting pretty bad and I finally had to muster through it once I got on the levy. I was really surprised I was under 30 minutes

train more and wear socks

hung out with my tri team and cheered everyone on


under trained. We moved in late April and I pretty much did not do anything.


I was still able to hit my goal of 1:25, but I know I could have been under 1:20 if I had been trained up and not made the mistakes on the swim.