The water was perfect and I thought I'd do well on the swim but I didn't seed myself properly and it was beach start so I felt I had to wait a while to start swimming and then couldn't get through the bunch to swim at a decent pace. For some time I felt boxed in by breast strokers and worried about getting kicked in the head. Then I finally got free and swam off course so had to zig zag back. I don't know if I've ever experienced so much contact on a swim before. Just too many women bunched in together.

I've put in less than 20 hours on the bike and even that was a stationary bike in spin class so I had NO expectations aside from it not being easy. The funny thing is that I'm almost always last on the bike even when I do train so what difference could not training make? Apparently not much! I rode the same distance last year at the end of the season (well trained) at 26.23km/hour.

It's a pretty course. A couple of decent hills.

Train

So ya... in my haste to get running I totally forgot to put on my race belt.

Run was decent. I'm okay with the pace. It's been so long I forgot what a tri run feels like. But this is a decent pace for me at a tri - actually it may be a PR.

Walked around drinking water, collected my food. Looked for Anne and Ken


Lack of training


Totally spontaneous decision and I couldn't even find proper race attire but it was so nice listening to tunes in the car on the way up and then being out in the sun in the pretty countryside. A good way to spend a sunny morning.

Total time 1:38:54. Finished 402/511 Overall, 163/233 for women, and 26/36.