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GOALS:
* Get in a good open water swim
* Get a guage for fitness
* Win

ACTUAL TIMES:
Overall Place: 1st
Full Results

SWIM:
Dolphin dived a couple of times and noticed my goggle was full of water so decided to drain it because I didn't feel like going through the whole swim like that. Lost a few guys due to that and swam solo the rest of the way. I went off in the 2nd wave so had to swim through quite a bit of traffic. Felt comfortable the whole time. I wore my skinsuit even though it was wetsuit legal because I knew I'd have to wear it in all of my other races anyway. Water temp was nice and chilly.

BIKE:
This course was rolling with a couple of decent climbs. I rode the 808 front and disk rear and it seemed to work out fine. I didn't have speed or HR so I just pushed to the point of being a bit uncomfortable. Felt like it would have been about LT minus 5-10 beats. After taking out the first and last miles for mounting and dismounting my average on my Garmin was 25.3 mph which I didn't think was bad for that course. Nice day.

RUN:
I wore the Newtons again to give them another chance and I simply don't like them. I didn't expect my swim or run to be anything stellar today due to my past 5 weeks of training and they weren't. The run felt slow and I didn't feel like pushing much harder. I felt like I could have held this pace for 10-13 miles but didn't feel like I could have gone much faster for 3 miles today. Oh well.....working the swim and run over the next 5 weeks.

SUMMARY:
Overall it was a good effort.  The lack of training over the past five weeks has taken it's toll but the fitness will come back.