I did a lot better sighting the bouys this time. I wasn't off in lala land. I started in the middle of the womens pack. The salt water threw me the first few breaths and I had to try really hard to breathe out of my mouth. I didn't realize I normally take in that much water - I guess I just got used to chlorine all those years. :) The breathing also helped calm my nerves since I had something to focus on. The current was helping carry us, so I had a pretty good swim.

This time around, nothing. I stayed on course and was about in the middle of the pack. Not sure there's much else to calm my nerves in an OWS.

The wetsuit came off a lot faster this time. I just have to give it a good yank when it gets caught on my ankles. This T1 felt faster than the last, but not sure. I still have the problem of feeling dizzy the first 10 minutes or so coming out of the swim.

I felt much better with my gearing on the hills. Hmmm, maybe climbing mountains pays off. Still relatively slow on the bike, but getting faster.

The dismount for the bike was at the top of the hill. The first couple of steps were a bit slipery and precarious, but made it down.

I would have walked up the initial hill. I think I expended way too much energy climbing the hill and it took a while for my HR to come back down.

Well, seeing as I'm not supposed to run...of course I kind of followed the doc's advice. The run course was cone lined, so I ran 10 cones and walked two. Figured that all averaged out, right?

Run?

Walked around a bit. Grabbed a smoothie and cookie from the refreshment tent. Then went to mexican food for dinner with Vera.


Running the whole run portion.


The volunteers were great. It would have been nice if they had a refreshments tent open before and after the race, given the race time was 5pm.