This is my best swim EVER. No panicking, no hyperventilating. Woohoo! Was with some of my wave for all of the swim, which is different than usual, since I'm usually left behind pretty quickly. Had to figure out how to swim with other people around me.

Learn how to draft, better with navigation, better rounding the buoys. Of course - more practice might help, too.

Long run from swim into transition area. Lost some time because I put on a sock upside down. And because it had been raining, everyting was wet and a little harder to handle. Still - I felt like I took forever in this transition.

Learn to do these things sockless.

Felt slow on the bike, and indeed I was 2 minutes slower than last year. Course was wet, so I was a little more careful in the turns and felt like that hampered me getting back up to speed.

More time in the saddle. I haven't had enough quality time with my bike to see the kind of results I want.

This was pretty easy. Might have been able to run with the bike faster, but otherwise, no complaints.

Not much.

Felt pretty good on the run. First mile came in sub-8 minute and so I backed off a little on the second mile ... but TOO MUCH! When I saw the 9 minute mile, then I kicked it back into gear and - how, I don't know - pushed out a 7:15 mile. Started raining again in my last mile ... it had held off while I was on the bike, though, so I was happy!

Not back off quite as much that second mile. Probably could have broken 25:00 if I were more careful.

Wait for my friend to come in, and then run for cover since it had started pouring out!


Wet pavement. Not enough training.


I really enjoy this race ... nice, unintimidating swim and FLAT bike and run courses. And because it's all women it's a "you go, girl!" kind of environment, which is a nice change of pace.