Triple T summary -- "Choose to walk, not forced to walk"

Last year's goal was "don't walk" ... a year's worth of training and experience later, and that seems amusingly naive. This year, the goal was "don't blow up again." So Saturday, the mantra was "this is not the race, tomorrow is the race", and then on the Sunday bike, "this is not the race, the run is the race."

My goal was to be sub 12:00, I was 12:04 with a slight unplanned 5k detour during the Saturday morning Olympic.

Best stat that describes this bike course: over a 10 minute period, I averaged 250 watts at 12 km/h.

Fri -- wasn't stupid, (26min-ish)

Saturday AM Swim : 25:53 (1:43 min/100m)
Saturday AM Bike : 1:31:33 (got lost, added 5k onto distance), NP=216W, 29.7km/h

Saturday AM Run : 1:00:50 (5:49 min/km)

Saturday PM Bike : 1:21:36, NP=201W, 29.9km/h
Saturday PM Swim : 26:16 (1:45 min/100m)
Saturday PM Run : 58:49 (5:38 min/km)

Sunday Swim : 30:45 (1:37 min/100m)
Sunday Bike : 3:19:52, NP=165W, 27.9 km/h
Sunday Run : 1:51:30 (5:43 min/km)

I was happy with how I raced, I was very even on the bike, steady on the runs, walked up the steep hills and opened up on the downhills (my quads paid for that, but it worked for the race).

I did what I had planned to do in this race, I'm going to give it a rest for a while, maybe do it as a team in a couple years.