24/33 after swim. Ugh! What can I say, I suck! I felt relaxed when before the start and have had such good OWS workouts. The horn goes off I dive in and start swimming what I percieve to be a fast pace. I look up after about 25 yards and it looks like the entire pack is ahead of me already. Now I'm psyched out and starting to run out of breath. I change my strategy of just going all out. I swim the crawl between buoys then breast stroke about 4 or 5 times at the buoy. I get my breath back and keep swimming. After the second buoy the 25 - 29 yo males caught up and swam over us. What the Fk? Was much better at sighting at this race.

Get a coach and take swim lessons. I'm getting more comfortable in the water but not getting any faster. I can't fix it on my own.

16/33 in T1 time.I was very organized and had run through my transitions mental quite a bit. I thought I was going to take a lot longer in the transitions because I've started wearing sox but it felt like it went very smoothly.

Get my haircut so I don't mess with it so much.

Hilly! One long hill down and stair steps back up. I feel like I'm making progress on the bike more than the other two segments. I would not have been able to do this at the beginning. My goal was to spin high cadence on the flats and rest on the down hills. I stayed in my seat on the uphills. My average speed was 16.x whick is phenomonal considering how long the hill climb was. My chain came off once but I think I only spent 60 seconds total fixing it.

Check my bike closer and ride it prior to the race. I think the chain problem happened in the car and could have been avoided. I also need to work a little more on my Aerobottle. The staw blew out on the downhill.

10/33 in T2 time. This went so smoothly that I stopped myself to see if I had forgotten anything.

Just practice more transistions so I'm more confidant.

11/33 run time. I felt really good. My only fatigue was at about 3.5 miles but cleared up close to the finish. I kept repeating "I will run and not grow weary." My breathing was also a good cadence. It was depressing at the end to be passed by the older women who started after I did. Next year I'm going to be that fast.

Just keep putting on the miles.

Are 1/4 of a bagel and packed my stuff up.


Time training.


Very chaotic but I think that's due to a new race coordinator.