I suck at sighting...what can I say. I felt pretty good going out...I was the second to the last one to enter the water (We were sent off in 5 second waves) so I didn't have to worry about anyone swimming over me. Breathing was good, I was in a rythym, and thinking this wasn't so bad - considering I haven't been in the water in over two weeks. Decided to lift my head and see where I was - and would you know it, I had already gone WAY off course. Redirected myself, and tried to find the best angle to the buoy, but every time I tried to do freestyle, I would pull to the right. Began to think that I would almost be faster doing breast stroke and swimming a straight line...but felt like such a weenie every time I switched to breast stroke. I don't know why....just felt like I was letting myself down. Rounded the buoys ok...caught up to the swimmer in front of me....swam till my hands touched the sand, and ran up the beach. I'm not sure how fast I actually swam the 500, but I'm estimating that my run up the beach took about a minute and half. So my swim didn't really suck as bad as I thought it did.

Learn how to swim straight??? That is sooo dang frustrating. I could probably have pretty decent swim times if I could just swim in a straight line!!! I end up swimming way more yardage than I need to.

Found Jay in transition and passed the chip off to him. Caught my breath and got real discouraged about my swim.

Jay had a good time on the bike course. He hadn't trained at all for this - only rode once or twice in the last couple of weeks - but was doing this race for me and my daughter. He and another lady played cat on mouce on the hills. She would pass him going up, and he would pass her going down. He was disappointed with his time...but hey...what do you expect when you don't train! I can barely go that fast when I do train - doesn't seem fair.

Pretty quick transition. Don't know how we could have been faster - The fastest relay time for this transition was 28 seconds...so we weren't too far off.

Jessie wasn't happy with this run at all. She usually averages 7.5 min miles so this was slow for her. I think the lack of eating breakfast, or late start, and the fact that she had to waste so much energy shivering before she got a chance to run had a lot to do with it. She had a good time though, and really enjoys being out there in the triathlete environment. She's thinknig of doing a duathlon next (still won't attempt the swim)

Wake her up earlier and force her to eat??? Nah...this was just a family thing for fun...so it is what it is. The team that beat us - beat us by 2 minutes, and we beat the number 3 team by 2 minutes...So we were solidly second. My daughter and I like to point out that the team that beat us had two men on it...so....we actually did pretty good.

Got our meals...sat down...shivered....shivered some more...found out we took 2nd place in the mixed relay division (there were 6 teams)...so waited around for the awards ceremony. Should have just gone home....For our prize we each got a somewhat cheap off brand swiss army knife...Hey I guess its better than nothing :-) I think I would have preferred a plaque.