The water was quite a bit colder than I was expecting due to all the rain so it took me a while to actually get in my groove. I think being in the open heat kind of psyched me out too because there were more people in front of me than I expected there to be. The start seemed to come kind of quick and it took me 100m or so to get relaxed and swimming well. I had a really tough time on the first leg of the triangle staying to the buoys. I kept wanting to drift to the right. I think the water was rough.

well, this was a new transition... swim to run. I was worried about putting wet socks on wet feet so I had left my shirt, socks and shoes wrapped in trash bag to keep them dry so I had to get them out and put them on, put race belt on and take off. I also took a second to get a drink but overall it was a quick transition given that it was pouring rain.

forget the socks probably - given that they were soaking wet in about 10 seconds with the trails covered in water.

n/a - bike course was cancelled due to the rain

I thought the course was a 5K the whole time I was running it and none of the miles were marked so I was extremely conservative. I was kind of disappointed when I ended the run and had so much gas left in me. I had planned a trial run of the run course on Thursday night and it got rained out so the whole run course was very new to me.

Be more prepared and know the run course better - had I known it was only 2.6 miles and known where the mile markers were I would have given it more effort.

walked around in the pouring rain and went over and cheered for the final swim heats still finishing up. wish I would have stretched a bit more - once I stood around for over an hour for the awards and got cold from drying out under the shelter house I tightened up - legs were sore on Sunday


RAIN and lots of puddles up to the ankle on the run course


Given the weather conditions and the cancellation of the bike course this was extremely well run! They communicated wonderfully, the orientations were awesome and the post-race activities that were held were pretty good. Had the women's health expo and everything not been cancelled due to rain this would have been the best event ever.