Overall time - 58:04 5th place out of 98 in the first timers wave If I had raced my age group, would have put me around 18th out of 60.
Swim time - 9:15, 24th out of 98
T1 time got combined with bike time - 29:00 Garmin said I did 7.3 miles in 26:15 (I hit start late and the course was short, so I missed a quarter of a mile or so.) Regardless, I must have had one of the top 3 bike times in order to have placed so high overall.
T2 - 1:23, 24th out of 98. I think I had myself a transition party.
Run - 18:25, 10th out of 98. I negative split and my second mile was 8:57, my fastest mile ever.
Biggest lesson learned: control the controllable because there is bound to be one thing (or a hundred things) you can't do jack squat about. But if you've done all you can and have back up plans for everything, you'll be in better shape than most of the rest of your competitors.
Overall, most fun, best race experience of my life and I cannot wait to do it again.
Wow, contrats! I love hearing tri reports, especially a first timer.
I have had a tri on my list of things I want to accomplish for the last two year - I need to get up the courage to pick one and start training. My excuse is always swimming, I need to learn to swim first, I got the other two.