The water was nice, it was like swimming in an 80 degree pool, perfect. My wetsuit was good, however, I had never worn it before, so I felt like it was choking me! I had to talk to my self the whole time, that everything was going to be okay.

Try out a wetsuit and open water swim first!

This was bad because I was going to use my swimming chamois to dry off, but I forgot to get it wet and wring it out! So I dried off with a shirt! Bad idea! Umm, and my bike shoes laced and then velcroed (sp?) Next time I would just use the velcro.

Everything I said above. :) Oh yeah, and actually practice one time doing a transition!

The course was nice. My butt bones are sore though. My nickname is Moo and while I was biking I was all alone, and there were some cows on the side of the mountain all of a sudden they were all looking at me and one of them said, "Mooooo" Sounds dumb, but I felt like they were cheering me on. Yeah that was dumb.

Build up more strength for the bike ride, it wasn't difficult but I felt like I could've done better. Also, I should've learned how to use the gears. I was in the same one the whole time.

Not too shabby. Pulled my running shoes right on with my YANKZ! They worked perfectly! Guzzled some Gatorade and off I went.

Wear actual biking shorts so that my shorts wouldn't ride up on me on the run!

This was my fear of the race. However, I think being in racing mode, I somehow ran the whole thing. Actually I should say jogged, cause my legs were like wet noodles.

Wear different shorts for sure!

Umm, had my first Athsma attack. Although I don't have athsma, I think my body was kinda in shock that it had done all of that and I just stopped. I never really thought of a cool down after a big race like that. How dumb. So I was a little scared, but then I calmed down and was okay!


Proabably not warming up or stretching.


I thought the race was PERFECT for a first timer. There weren't more than 50 or 60 people there. The course was awesome. The only thing was the race director was unorganized and was just yelling out times and it just seemed unorganized. I was very glad to be one of the only first timers there and taking 2nd in my age group. I am definitely addicted!