Good swim. I had Mr. Age-Group winner/Adonnis and Mr. Ironman Coeur D'Lane in my lane. Both very nice and very hot guys. We all swam about the same pace. I miscounted and thought I still had a 50 to go, so I never kicked in my end sprint before it was time to get out. Swim felt awesome and flip turns were fantastic.

Count better! Swim the last 100 at 100%

I had this down to a science. I didn't take anytime to dry off, just my feet to slip into my socks. Only thing that was a bit of a hitch was stuffing my gel in to my wet back pocket.

Nothing...this went perfect

I did almost get hit by a car when the cop didn't see me coming up behind the line of cars and directed a lady to turn right just in front of me. I swerved way to the right and she missed me, but had it been 1 second later, I would have slammed into the side of the car. The cop apologized, saying he didn't see me.

They also had the course designated by a row of cones on the right that we were supposed to ride to the right of. It was a pretty narrow space and once when we came to an intersection with a long line of cars, the space was filled with 3 very large riders on mountain bikes. I just started screaming like a mad-woman "on your left" as I zoomed by, outside the cones, about 10" from the cars. At least the cop saw me this time. I wasn't about to hit the brakes and slow from 21mph to 12mph because they didn't leave enough room. However, I feel bad for screaming like a crazy bitch at the beginners.

Hammer up the first hill.

This went really smooth again, however I was kicking myself because I couldn't find my Yanx last night, so I had to tie my shoes.

Thought I was running slow as heck. I was also all alone with nobody in sight ahead or behind. I finally saw a guy about 2/3 through and ran hard to catch and pass him. I always need a "rabbit" to get me moving. I also didn't have my watch or I would have pushed it harder to beat 1 hour. Although, I don't know if I could..this is my fastest mile times ever and I had a side stitch and a shoulder pain.

I have to say, I wrote Pearl's name, my friend's baby who just died, on my leg. It was really special knowing that I was racing for her. Several times I asked her to "give me wings and help me fly" and she did. I got choked up a few times thinking about it, but really wanted to do well to honor her.

Do more sprint workouts.

walked around, ran to go see hubby start bike portion. Water, banana, bagel, orange


Could use more sprint workouts on the run.

I cut 10 minutes from my time last year on this race, most from the bike, some from transition and run. I was really pleased. I also placed in top ten in my age group, which is more than I ever dreamed of!