I am fairly happy with my performance. I seeded myself in the 3rd wave and on hindsight I should have gone off in the first wave. I was the first out of the water in my wave and I passed about half of the people in the second wave. It was difficult passing at times because people were not swimming straight. I felt like I should have been able to go faster anyway. I had to do some breaststroke to sight and because I was getting tired. My swim time is probably about 30sec to 1 min faster because we had to run up a steep embankment and since I felt like I was going to pass out when I got out of the water, I walked most of it. A little girl standing next to the swim exit was yelling at me to run up the hill. I was thinking Ok you sprint 440 yard then try to run straight up a hill then you can tell me to run. I was quite annoyed. I bet that if I would have run up the hill I could have place first in my age group for the swim.

Gone in the first wave and trained more. Sighted better. I need to practice my swim transitions so I don't feel so dizzy getting out of the water.

I was suprised that my wetsuit came off so easily. I kinda took my time in this transition because I was still trying to catch my breath from the swim.

Hurry! I need to practice more.

This was so bad! I don't even want to talk about it. I performed way below my expectations. I just could not get going. The hills were really hard for me. I even had to get off my bike on the really steep hill at the end of the course and walk my bike up half of it. I am almost ashamed of my performance. BOO!!

Ride more. I really need to get on the bike.

I don't have bike shoes yet so I only had to rack my bike and throw my helmet off. Boy was I glad to be off the bike!

Nothing really.

Ugh. All I can say is: Ugh.

Run more. Obviously I am not a runner. Yet.

Drack some water. Ate a muffin and wandered around.


Hmm. . .Let me think real hard on this one. Maybe someone can help me out here?


I liked this race. I thought it was interesting that there was no body marking. This was really a bare bones community race but it was well organized. I thought the race director was really funny. I did not stay for the awards but apparently, they were pretty good. For $35 I thought this race was great and I will do it again next year. I can only improve my performance.