Normal swim for me. Still my weakest event. I have to force myself to not go hard or I will tire quickly. I caught myself doing just that early on but slowed my stroke and my breathing. My sighting was probably better than usual. I basically hit every buoy. One of them was hard to see due to the sun but I just followed the swimmers ahead of me and finally picked it up.

Working with my swim coach to try to get my times down but with this swim I was just fine with the 39 minutes.

Nothing great. Normal transition. I will note here (and maybe later), that I missed second place by about 1.5 minutes. I could make up some of that in transition.

Maybe just speed it up. I took a gel and some water. Had to grab a towel and wipe my eye as I was having trouble seeing due to some water in my goggles during the swim.

Ok bike for me. I really wanted to average over 20mph but 19.7 is pretty close. Still having trouble staying in aero on the new bike. Kept to coaches plan in attempting negative spit. Upper zone 2 for first loop. Lower zone 3 for second.

Get a better fit so I can stay aero. Would have helped with the wind on this course.

Normal T2. A little slow at run out trying to get my chew open and eaten.

Open the chews before the race.

I am a big old Clydesdale and don't think I have ever run a stand-alone 10k in under an hour so this was crazy good for me. I have been working with a coach for the last 4 months and I think I am finally seeing the results. The weather helped too. First really cool day here in Houston in a while.

Pace per coach and kept in upper zone 1 lower zone 2.

Nothing. Could maybe push a little harder but very happy with results.

Drank a few cups of Gatorade and walked around a little.


Bike comfort.



This was an Olympic PR for me by 15 minutes. Now onto the 70.3.