Over The Mountain Triathlon - Triathlon

It started raining as I was waiting for my wave to start. It kept raining for the rest of the morning! After rounding the buoy, it was raining so hard that sighting to shore was very difficult. We were to swim to the dancing man, however because of the rain, he was not dancing! My sighting was so poor, that a guy on a kayak actually stopped me to tell me I was headed totally the wrong way. I have never done such a poor job sighting.

Swim straight.

TI was a good distance from the water. And a big uphill right out of the water. And running on rough asphalt with lots of loose gravel. This time was actually better than I expected. Had to dump water out of my helmet. Clearly didn't need my sunglasses, so just stuffed them down my top, where they remained all day.

I went a lot slower than I had hoped because I was afraid of falling. I don't usually train if it is raining. There were times that I slowed down even more because it was raining so hard that the rain hurt.

I had to dump water out of my shoes before I put them on! Otherwise, everything was ordinary.

Nothing.

Glad I didn't see the run course before the race as it was much hillier than I expected. I hadn't done any run training in about 3 weeks because of achilles issues. It showed in this run.

Nothing really. Waited in the rain for the awards to start.


Glad I did this race for the start of my season. I was under-trained due to injuries, but had fun. And was first Athena!