The last leg of the swim was a long straight swim from the buoy to the swim exit. I thought I was swimming right towards the flags when I ran into some sharp seaweed stuff and starting hitting my hands on some good sized rocks underwater. Got out of that stuff quick, it HURT! There were only 3 waves and they were 5 minutes apart so I had open water pretty much the whole time. I was very glad the water wasn't HOT... if I had swam as an AGer, I would have been 4/16 women.

Get out faster to avoid any body contact. There were only 7 of us in my wave, no reason to run into each other!

Ran into transtion and Tammy took off the timing strap and put it on Gerard. Then he was off!

Nothing... a bit tricky getting out of the water until I made it to the carpet, but I think I did this as fast as possible.

Gerard did this leg of the relay and he worked it hard! He was just a tad sweaty when he came in and said the wind was really bad out there... headwinds and crosswinds. Not any tailwind...

Tammy and I waited in transition for Gerard to come in. The team that came in before him exchanged the timing chip right inside the transition area although we were told we had to do that at the bike rack where he had his bike. We did it the legal way... and STILL had a blazing fast transition! I took the chip off Gerard and placed it on Tammy and she was GONE!

Nothing, we did this one great!

Poor Tammy had the roughest leg of all... by the time she started it was almost 9 a.m. and the sun was up and HOT. Then her foot nerve started complaining, but she was a trooper and brought it in strong! Then found out that the 4.4 mile run, somehow turned into 4.8!

Have Tammy get her foot surgically fixed, ha ha!!

None, we hung around waiting for the awards, had some water, and grilled hot dogs, MMMM! Sat in the shade and tried not to sweat.


Nothing really.... we had to deal with wind and heat, but we all did our share and did it well! We had a GREAT team!!


For a first time race, I thought it went very smoothly. The only SNAFU was when it came to the awards... when I went to check on the relay preliminary results, they had us listed as a "female" relay team. I don't think Gerard would have appreciated that much! So I went to the timing people and told them we were a mixed team, and the next time I checked the results, ALL the relay teams were mixed. I went back and the timing company said they were fixing that, so I let it go. They had out awards to the top 3 men and women, and then only give first place awards to the AGers? Said they wanted all the money to go to their charity (cancer). They get to the relay teams last and give out ONE award... to the top relay team which happened to be all male... so we didn't get our first place Mixed Relay award, but I emailed the race director who was hugely apologetic and he is mailing us our award!!

All in all a great race with a great team. I'm going to consider doing this one on my own next year... it's not quite an Oly, but definitely longer than a sprint...