I felt REALLY REALLY good in the water for this race. I didn't feel like I was in a panic during any part of the swim. I did experience my first real hard kick to the head - more like my eye, which caused my goggle over my right eye to get stuck inside the bottom of my eye socket (I'm sure I didn't explain that right) preventing me to see out of that eye until I figured out what was going on. At first I thought that girl kicked the eyesight right out of me. After a minor adjustment I was back on track.

I would do absolutely nothing differently. I stopped briefly about 2 times, one to fix my goggle and the other to just make a sharp turn around the buoy. I couldn't expect a better time. It was about an eight minute improvement over my swim time last year when I did this race, which was my first tri. I can't complain. AND, I felt good - Most improtant.

This course was flat. I liked it. It was a little windy at times and I could really feel the difference while riding. I'm not going to complain, though, because it was a very flat course. I felt really good overall during the bike. About a 1/4 mile into the bike I said "on your left" to a girl who was riding left, thinking to myself "why the F is she riding so far to the left." I pass her and continue straight on the road to only realize that I JUST missed the slight left I was just supposed to take. No wonder she was riding left. Here I am wondering why she's riding like an idiot and I'm the one that is the actual idiot missing the turn. That makes two races I made wrong/missed turns.

hmmm. I'm not sure. I had some mental issues during this ride regarding how hard my effort was going to be. Sometime I thought that I was going to go all out as hard as I could since my run was going to hurt anyway because of my bad hamstring, then I would think, "no Carrie, be conservative you may have a good run." I kept changing my mind. I should have just went ALL OUT the entire 11 miles. So, next time...ride more think less.

I took my time here. I have no idea why. Bob and Fred were at my transition spot on the side and Bob was trying to take pictures. I threw my bike shoe at him, since I didn't need it anymore ;)

I can probably cut some time off here by running a little faster and not dilly dallying so much.

I knew the run was going to suck. I didn't run all week. My hamstring was killing me. I have a 1/2IM coming up in two weeks so I was just testing it out. It was pretty rough today. I did ok considering and I certainly should have been running slower.

Under these circumstances I should have run slower. Had I ran slower I still would have done much better than I did last year.

Drank some water and waited for race results to be posted.


hamstring injury.


This is a great race. It's very informal and it would be great for anyone doing a triathlon for the first time. They handled the storm situation wonderfully. I'm so glad it wasn't canceled and they simply postponed it. The race has been around for over 20 years so I'm sure they've worked out a lot kinks over the years. I really enjoy this race and hope to do it again next year.