It was tough to get my placement at the start but I got into a rhythm right away. One bonus of a cloudy, rainy day is no sun to prevent you from navigating the swim course. I could see everything clearly which helped my confidence level. I wished I hadn't given in to the peer pressure of almost everyone in their wetsuits because I was a bit warm. Aside from that, I felt I pushed it hard and was happy with my performance and that I dropped 5 and 1/2 minutes from last year on this course!!

Maybe not wear my wetsuit, but this is an oly PR for me so perhaps things worked out for the best.

Even though everything was soaked, this is one of my best T1's removing a wetsuit so I was pretty happy.

Bring a tarp for my transition items in case of rain.

I knew I was 4th woman out of the water and was frustrated as I wasn't able to catch any other women, yet got passed by two. I tried to keep up with one of them and pushed it a little harder than I would've otherwise and would like to thank her for that! She widened the gap and I lost her from my sight. At that point I felt so tired but was super happy to cross into transition almost 5 minutes faster than last year on this course when it was dry!!

As usual, I would train more on the bike. It's the only thing that holds me back from placing much higher in races like this with good women bikers.

T2 doesn't show up on the race results but I felt pretty good again considering the rain and wetness. I tripped over some random stuff in the aisle way trying to rack my back and also dropped my ipod running toward transition exit but still felt pretty fast. I'm guessing it was under a minute.

My legs have never hurt this much coming off the bike. Not sure why but my inner thighs (??) were killing me. I felt like I wasn't sure how I was going to even finish these 6.8 miles. Once I got past the first mile, I started watching my pace and was pleasantly suprised at how much faster I was going than I felt I was. Once I was halfway done, my legs loosened up and was just excited for the home stretch. I dropped 4 minutes off last years time on this course and was elated!

Nothing. I was glad the weather was poor since at that point it stopped raining and I was just comfortable instead of feeling warm.

I felt so sore and tired. Maybe it was because I race harder than I used to? I tried to just stretch as my legs were hurting more than I would've expected in an oly.


I was happy with everything even through the rain which didn't seem to slow me down at all. Again, I just need more training on the bike. My swim and run ranks are always so much higher than my bike rank.


Overall I dropped almost 16 minutes from my time on this course last year and I did it on my first rainy day race ever. I was very proud of my hard work and glad I didn't let the rain get to me mentally.