Well I was kind of bummed to be in the second wave, I was thinking I would be in the first since last year I was in the second. Last year I did the relay since I couldn't run so I figured that is why I was in the second wave, well 40 and over were in the second wave, they let all the young gals go first. The main reason I was bummed was the congestion on the bike course.

My swim was good except I didn't have anyone to draft off. I was third out of my wave out the water, the two ahead of me were in a relay, they were far ahead so there was no draft choice. One was a minute ahead and the other a little bit more. So I had a group drafting off me which I could tell was making me work just a little harder than I wanted. I caught up to the the fist wave and actually caught a little wave into shore.

The course was also longer than last year, last year it was probably more like 400 meters due to a big swell. It looked longer and my time is longer than last year.

Try to place my self next to the faster swimmers to draft. Of course that is hard to do, hey chicky what is your average 100 split can I draft off of you....;)

My watch decided to have low batteries, I tried to use it and I guess it was working but all I could see was zeros so after my T1 I stopped hitting for transition times. They didn't use a timing chip, so transition times are included in swim and bike.

Well I know I fumbled with my gel to put in my suit, next time I will just swim with it.

As I expected coming out of the water in the second wave made the bike course congested, which meant I had a lot of passing to do. I passed so many riders and my time is really not as improved as I expected. Now yes it fun to pass but in my last race I got penalized for drafting which was ridiculous because it was more congestion on the course than me intentionally trying to draft. So that being on my mind I was really trying to play it safe. Overall I love bike racing and had a blast.

Train harder and not get sick before, I did feel a bit tired on the hills.

Well I managed to figure a rough time on this transition by subtracting my bike computer time from my overall bike time, very slow transition for me, this may include a little of T1 transition as well.

Well after looking at the video, I could have started running while putting my race belt on.

Well my focus in training was on my run, and it payed off! Not as fast as I did it a couple years ago but close. I did not feel I was running this fast. About 3/4 of mile left both quads started to twinge like they were going to cramp, I may have slowed a bit and started to breath out longer in hopes they wouldn't fully cramp and they didn't I was able to finish running and may have sprinted the last 50 yards down the shoot with a big smile across my face! I finally did the whole Na Wahine! My first year the swim was canceled and was du, last year I did a relay due to my foot injury, so it was great to actually do the whole race as I intended.

Not get sick prior to a race!

Walked around for 5 minutes grabbed a Jamba juice.


Illness prior to race.


I love this race! I find it more competitive than the coed races I have done. The women in my age group are very tough chicks! There were 12 of us from Kauai, we all had a great time and some came home with hardware.
It was gratifying to see my friend who always wanted to do a tri, she was struggling with the swim and pushed through her fears and kept at it and is now hooked!