Nice job considering especially considering the swim adventures you had. Great job on the run!!! And you did a 1/2 Marathon last week....Wow! The swim was in a larger, clearer, cleaner but much colder pond last year. They moved the venue cause the parking and transition areas were much better at the school than last year (had to walk over a 1/2 mile and park in a farmer's field, and swim to T1 was 100% gravel which sucked.) Hopefully they will get it right the third time.

Nice solid result - especially the swim after your unscheduled break.

I agree - I won't do it again if it's the same pond. I swam into that same tree stump twice! nice bruise on my chest.

I second, or third, or 364th (isn't that how many people did the race?) your sentiments on the swim. This was my 10th triathlon and by far the worst water I have ever had to step foot into. I did the half also. I was running with a guy who told me he actually threw up in the water! I am cracking up as I type this! The things we do to ourselves. . . . .I drove all the way out from Indiana for the race and when us women (in wave 7 or 8 or whatever) got herded into that undescribely disgusting water, I seriously considered getting back out and driving 12 hours back home. . . . But then I thought, heck, we're all in it together. . . I'll just told myself it was like a "Fear Factor" stunt. . . and that's what I told myself the whole swim to get through it. I never hit the infamous stump, but my husband did. I am a teacher and I've been telling my kids the water story all day; it never gets old.