My first open water swim. I am really not sure if it was 500 yards or not. My time is not indicative of that. There was about a 100 yard run to the timing mat after you got out of the water so that was added to the time. The swim was great!! I much prefer open water swims to pool swims. I sprinted the first 200 yards to seperate from the group. When we started I felt a couple people hitting my legs so I assumed I needed to pick it up or get swam over. So I hit it for a couple hundred yards. My sighting was great. I didn't have any problems even looking a little bit into the sun. I settled in and concentrated on my breathing. Rounded the bouy, started my swim back to the beach, sighted a few more times, and actually stopped once just to make sure I was on course good. Looked back, and to my surprise I was probably 100 yards in front of everyone! So I kept at it. My wave was the very first one to go, so I was the very first person out of the water and up the beach. What a cool feeling!! It was really great. I was really happy with the swim.

Nothing, I don't think it could have went better.

This was ok, they really had some long distances between timing mats, I had a little trouble getting clipped in, but not too bad.

I think racing more will help. Just need to practice this.

Oh my God! Now I had been riding this course to try to prepare, but wow. The hills were amamzing. I got passed alot, but I am going to work on this alot. I felt like my legs were sort of starting to cramp, but by mile 6 or so they loosened up and I finally got my second wind or something. I started settling in a little better. I can't tell you how many people I saw walking their bikes up the hills. They were really hard! I was happy though, I never got off the bike, I passed alot of people back on the up hill climbs, which I was really proud of. I got passed later again, but still I was fairly happy with the bike, I just need to ride more. I have swimmer legs. LOL.

Just keep at the bike. I am getting there. 2 months ago I had to get off my bike on a regular ride to make it up 3 different hills. Now, I can climb about any hill. So I am getting there.

Decent, I need more practice, as this is free time. The faster I get the better my time will be.

Practice more.

This was a really cool run. Yeah, my time sucked but it was a really neat trail run through the woods for the first half. The trail was narrow and no real passing could be done. Jumping over creeks and logs and all kinds of stuff. I only got passed on the run maybe twice and I repassed a few once we hit the road. I really like the run. The only bothersome thing was holy crap I had to pee!!!!! That really messed me up. Bad. It actually made my stomach start feeling bad. I pushed through, but wow, that really had a bad effect on me.

Nothing, I just need to run more. My fitness is ok, but not where I want it to be. Not yet anyway.

Walked around and talked to some people about the race. Stretched a little. Nothing much.


Trail run was different, I think that slowed everyone, but was really cool. I had to pee for pretty much the whole run which just killed me.


The race itself I thought was awesome! They really did a great job. I had a great time. I will definately be going back again next year.