all of this with the majestic wasatch mountains as the backdrop. approaching the first buoy, the lead pack begins to spread out. out front, and it's no surprise, is ben allen, who grew up swimming and surfing in australia. yeah, for me, i like to try to break down the swim, so just keeping it simple, thinking about technique, good body posture in the water. nice and streamlined. high elbows, keeping your head down and every couple of strokes looking for sighting buoys, making sure you're swimming in the right direction. narrator: a simple enough strategy, but allen makes it look especially easy. so does women's leader, canadian christine jeffrey. jeffrey is a former all-american swimmer at arizona state. the challenge for her and ben allen is whether they can parlay their swimming prowess into success on the trails. chasing them is a hungry group of athletes that are all too familiar with a well-known adage in triathlon, "you can't win the race in the swim, "but you can lose it." while it is the shortest of the three xterra disciplines, for many, t

. >> in the shadow of the wasatch mountains, just south of salt lake city, lies utah state prison, or usp. originally built in 1951 this enormous institution has grown to cover over 680 acres. >> i've been at the utah state prison for over 25 years. during that time, we've gone from 1,200 inmates to almost 4,000 here. >> warden clint friel is tasked with the responsibility of running seven different facilities that house every variety of inmates. from gang units, to female offenders to death row, usp holds it all. the facilities at usp have earned their monikers from the surrounding mountain ranges with names like wasatch, oqirrh, timpanogos and uinta. building uinta-5 houses the receiving and orientation, or r&o. >> uinta-5 is probably a time when they are most afraid. it's when they first hear the slamming of the doors, see the officers. and it can be a very difficult time for the inmates. >> after 20 years in the corrections business, lieutenant dale whitney knows that the first few moments with an inmate can be the most dangerous. >> we don't know when these guys came in, what the