Terrible swim. I just got caught up in the farily strong current and kept getting knocked off course. Had a hard time getting out of the waves. Everyone was getting up when it was chest deep and running, I tried to keep swimming. The waved kept pulling me back in and it was pointless. I probably lost a few minutes from that.
Also, when ever there is a beach start I wait until almost everyone is in the water for some lame reason. I don't know why

Wear a wetsuit, that was a poor decision on my part.

I missed my bike, ran right by it then I ran right up to another look alike cannondale. Very unhappy with my swim and feeling disorineted, I don't know what was going on. Then I took forever mounting my bike, my friend has a video of it and like 15 people run by me. Sigh. WTF is my problem.

Keep it together. Learn to moount my bike w/o reading war and peace.

Ah, finally on my bike and things are going better. I feel really good about my ride. My goal was to do it in less than an hour and I did. There was one spot where I got boxed in by some cars. BOO, I missed a fast descent cos there were cars on the narrow road and I didn't want to pass them. Then I kinda slowed down on the way into transition. Probably lost a minute or two total but then I kept thinking eh, probably for the best. If I ride this all out I wont be able to run at all. I wanted to hammer and I did. Not thrilled with the power data however, I was hoping to see a bit higher NP. eh life goes on.

Ride more smoothly VI was not too bad.

Much better then T1. Ran in the bike shoes quite a ways. My rack was as far from the Bike in as possible GRR. Oh well. Racked the bike swapped the shoes grabbed my race belt, visor and garmin and got the heck outta dodge. Oh, the yankz are great, should have gotten those sooner.

get tri shoes and learn to get out of them on the bike and then learn a flying dismount. However I am one of the most clumsy people on the planet, every day I ride clipless and don't tip over is a victory. To this day I'm amazed I can do it. So maybe it's in the greater tri community's best interest I just have slower transitions.

Man it got hot. My legs hurt. This was not fun. The run started uphill out of tranistion. God that was like pure torture. I got to the first aid station and I felt much better after dumping water all over myself. I just kinda gutted it out as best I could. Everyone in the world passed me. I passed one dde walking and he started running and passed me.

I suck at running so bad that when I pass people they get motivated to run faster and pass me "if that chick can pass me...god life is bad" heheheh

On the bright side, I suck a lot less then I used to :) and hey, I am not the worlds worst cyclist and I can swim well enough to not drown. Things could be worse right?

Oh and thanks to El Heffe for cheering for me that rocked :D

Not pose for the camera. What a loser.

Ran into Mrs. and Mr. USMC and chatted with them a bit. Will See y'all at Oceanside :) Then ate a banana chunk, wasn't too hungry. Packed up my transistion and waited for results. Then I went to Nytro to bike shop :D

Ok, that was more of an accident since we were going down to La Jolla to visit friends and my chauffer/sherpa wanted to stop for coffee. We were close to Encinitas and I was like "hey, lets go to Nytro" Next thing you know Im test riding a new tri bike....weird how that happens...


Spending the last 6 months training for a HIM and not sprints. Not being Triathlete skinny. For being in the game for a year I'll take a solid MOP finish :) This seems to be a longer race suited to people like me. Short swim, long bike, short run :) however it does attract some fasties since it's such a fantastically run race.

can I just say....Marines are freaking HAWT. I wanted to take one (or more) home with me.


All those things above, this race should get a 100 for. Never have I beed to such an incredibly run race. and I'm not just saying that becasue it was staffed with hotties. Seriously, well run race with tons of volunteers. I will do this race again and again and again....