After standing in line for about 50 minutes or so, I finally got to get in the pool. After discussing it amongst my lane mates we decided that I would start 4th based on my predicted finish time. Well within the first 200 yards I ended up passing the guy that started before me. I did get passed by the two men that started first, but that was expected since their predicted times where a 2 minutes faster than min. My predicted time was 12 minutes, my fastest time for this distance before now was 11:45, so I swam extremly well and am ery happy with my time.

Absolutly nothing.

I am not very good at this, but my practice time does not exist. Everything went as well as I could hope for. Seperated from te T1 time was the run distance from the pool door to the transition area which was

Practice, Practice, Pratice!!!!

Though a tuff course, it pushed my abilities to there max. My breathing was sporadic at best since I was freezing and winded from the swim. It wasn't till the last 2 miles or so that I regulated my breathing.

I really need to start riding the bike more, to increase my ability.

I was dizzy during this process so I rested my head on my bike seat to keep from falling over while I changed my shoes.

Again, I need more practice.

I was really hurting and couldn't get a good pace, till the turn around. Once on the way back I was well withing the comfort of running that I normally feel. I felt like I ran a lot worse than I actually did, but I would rather not feel so tired running.

Need to get more brick training in. I get plenty of running miles and am very comfortable running, but am not used to my legs being tight and heavy when I first start my run.

I walked into the pool to see if I could find Laura in the pool, but she wasn't there. So I walked up to the transition area and here bike was gone. So I dug the camera out of here bag and waited so I could take pictures for her coming back from the bike. After she finished, we walked around a little, then got food and found some shade to sit in for the awards and raffles.


I did not train nearly as hard as I could have. Being my first tri, I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but the next time I will no longer have the ability to use that excuse.


The overall race was good even though I was skeptical after the packet pickup yesterday. I feel that this was a good tri to use as my first tri.