It was a short course but I still freaked out because the water felt really cold. I need to get in the lake more often to get used to the colder water. There was no excuse considering how short it was. I doubt it was as long as it says.

I need to just swim and not psych myself out so much.

The trail from the water to transition had an old lady walking on it..lol...and the other people were walking on it too. Dried off my feet and took off without socks like I planned.

I caught up to a lot of people on the way back. The one guy saw me passing so he stood up and went faster which caused me to run over a ton of huge potholes because I had to stay out passing longer. I was not happy. MY aerobars were loose so I would go into aero position and slowly they would pull up o I had to sit up and push them down. The potholes made it a lot worse and they were a lot looser on the way back then out. Overall it was a good ride. I could've pushed it more on the way back in but I was never passed and caught a lot of people.

Tighten my aerobars and push it more on the way back in.

Just popped out of my bike shoes and into my running shoes.

I had an okay run. It could have been a lot better. The guy who stood up and made me run over a ton of extra potholes on the bike caught me on the run. He was the only one though. I caught 3 people. Part way through my feet had a really weird feeling almost like I had been stung or something. When I was finished they were both really bloody from cuts.

Washed the blood off my feet, changed and talked to my mom and sister on the phone while I was waiting for the awards ceremony. I got a picture frame with with a second place paper in one of the picture slots.


I have only been training for 3 weeks. The rest of the summer my training has been very spotty to say the least. Considering the lack of training I did very good. I was only 3+ minutes from the winner. If I was in shape I would be right up there. Right now I am just following a plan to be extremely ready for Boise next year. It was a lot of fun to race again. It was only my second race this year.


This was a cool small town race. I had a lot of fun camping before the race and the scenery around Seeley is top notch. This is a great race for beginners with a nice small town feel and a good BBQ and awards ceremony after.