I need to sight better. I kept finding myself off course quite a bit.

I was so glad for the volunteers here. The gal who helped me was actually a friend of mine and she practically dressed me. I was so grateful.

Probably not take 800mg of Ibuprofin and 2 midol.

I was really pleased with my bike. I was so worried that I wouldn't make the cutoffs. I made them with time to spare. I am definitely getting stronger as a biker. It just makes me want to work harder to I can get even better.

Probably nothing. I did stop at the med tent in Santa Clara after the first loop to have my blood sugars tested before I went back up that hill. I was having some blurry vision and thought that my diabetes was giving me grief. My sugars were fine. In hindsight, it was probably the the 800mg of ibuprofin and 2 midol that I took from my bike special needs bag at mile 52

The volunteers were fabulous. They took such good care of me.

Probably not take yet another dose of 800mg of ibuprofin and 2 midol. This stuff really did me in. I thought that I was preventing problems, but I was really creating a whole bunch of them.

Very hilly. Volunteers were fabulous. Many of them held buckets while I puked.

I have wondered whether or not I should have dropped out of the race. Considering that it is Monday night and I still am having troubles, I suppose that I made the right decision. I am hoping that I can completely recover from this. This has made me sooooo sick that I can't hardly move.

Way too much ibuprofin. I was on target to PR. It would have been fabulous! Now I am soooo sick! Puking, bloody diarreah, headaches, blurry vision, lethargy, bloated tummy, . . . yuck. This was a hard lesson to learn.


There were only a couple of things that I would have changed about this race. One would have been to have way more potties in T1. It took way too long to take care of business. That stupid loop on the bike on the way back into town on the second loop was ridiculous. There were so many ways to add additional mileage without doing something so stupid. The run course had a similar stupid loop with four lanes of runners all going different directions. I think the directors could have used a little more ingenuity in eliminating dumb sections like those.