I missed one buoy, and went on the other side of it, but not by much. I wasn't very good at sighting either I had my head out of the water a lot which hurt my stroke, but at the same time I went off course often enough that I needed to look and find my place.

Nothing, this was a really good time for me, I'm impressed.

It was a long hill and set of stairs to get the T1.

The time is slow for me, maybe it was the length of T1 but no worries.

This course was two laps also. I went around the course by car the day before and it looked like there were some nice flats but really it was a slight uphill so my biking was maybe at 10-12 which for me sucks. Training on the W&OD Trail is just not going to cut it.

Train on more hills, longer rides. This was not the bike ride I would have liked to have.

Whatever, switched shoes can't changed that!

This by far was my worst event and my time shows it, but in reality I wasn't that bad, most times were about an hour. I ran a lot of it, all the downhills and walked all the uphills, I don't remember too much pain in my legs or ITB, so I was happy with it. You know, I'm slow but it's OK. I wasn't racing to win.

Well, my training is going to focus more on running, but really taking care of my ITB and going slow and steady. Maybe train on some hills.

PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWHICHS! It was fantastic. A little strecth here and there.


Just having the mind-set that I'm racing injured certainly didn't push me to go faster and thats OK, you know next year I'm going to rock this time!
The best thing: I GOT FIRST PLACE! I was the only one in my age group but still FIRST PLACE!


The thing that really ticked me off, I mean I was hot! During the run, I understand that I'm slow and whatever but the race volunteers left the water stations! WTF? I'm still out here running around and it's kinda your job to help me out. It was just discouraging that they pretty much were closing down the course before I was done! Plus, it's not the races fault but the road to get out of the race was the same as the run course, so everyone who finished first were leaving already and all those cars on the road were annoying.