I totally loved this swim. They started the men in wave one, and the women followed in wave two along with the teams. All the men had bright yellow caps. As i waited for our start and watched the swimming yellow caps i made it my goal to pass as many yellow caps as i could. Then came the start. I took off from the front of the pack and never looked back. It was great. I easily caught the first wave and had plenty of swim space so i kept crusin in. When i finish the swim and run up the boat ramp i hear them say and here comes the first lady, woo hoo thats me!! Mentally here i get a little ahead of myself thinking about the great head start i have.

hmm. Pretty happy with this part of the race. I will always probably think i could have gone a little faster.

Pretty good transition. I bought some of those elastic no tie show laces. This was my first time using them, and i believe they are one of the greatest inventions ever!! I want them for all of my shoes. Grabbed my bike and ran towards the mount line, noticing along the way that not only am i the first female out of the water, but i am one of the first racers perio. AWESOME! Again i get alittle a head of myself and start pondering the chances that i could win the event.

stay focues on the race and not the end results.

So I started out on the bike and made it up the first hill just out of the transition, taking off planning to build my lead, at this point i really want to try and win the whole thing! Then around a corner and up a second hill, ut oh not in the right gear. About halfway up i just climb off and run up the hill, then i get back on my bike and go. Here's where the memory gets alittle shady. Its about mile 2-3, and i remember kind looking to the rigbt and noticing the lack of shoulder. Its here that i crashed, pretty hard too! I don't remember the fall at all, i think my body just went into auto pilot, becuase some how i got back up on my bike. I do remember that some guy stopped to help, cause i remember asking him if my chain was off, he said yes, and put it on, then i was off again. I don't really remeber any thing else about the bike course. At some point a guy passed me and told me back was gonna kill me tomorrow, asked me how i went down, to which i replied. "I must have hit my head pretty hard, because i honestly don't remember. I don't remember anything else about the bike course or how i rode it. At the time i knew where i was (in cape doing Triathlon), but i couldn't remember driving down there or details about the morning, so most of the bike ride i was just trying to regain my mental focus.

UMMMM.... STAY ON THE BIKE!

About the time i was coming into the tranistion and racking the bike i kinda came out of my haze and snapped back into race mode. Threw the bike on the rack and took off. Thinking four miles to get through.

Run felt really steady. I think my pace was really pretty good, i wish we would have been able to get split times. I took off and kept looking ahead, seeing the person in front of me and slowly but surely gaining on them until i passed them. Got to say hi to a few racers and raced with one woman most of the last mile. It was a really good run for me. Not to mention every time i passed someone and they saw my bloody back i got afew extra cheers.

Run pace may have been a little to comfortable. Think i could have maybe pushed it just a little bit harder.

Nice bbq meal for participants along with awards ceremony and door prizes.
Really cool jerseys as prizes for overall winners. Trophies instead of medals for age group winners. Oh yeah and i won a thing of GU as a door prize. The finish area was different from the start area, so we all had to shuttle back to our bikes. Let me tell you 20-30 triathletes on one shuttle bus, makes for a smelly ride!


I would say the fact that i crashed, but i think that maybe i had some really good endorphins going that may have allowed me to perform a little better on the run.


I really enjoyed this race. It was small, but nice. All of the particpants were really friendly. Almost everyone offered to help me bandage up my back, finally the park rangers/EMTS just came by and did it for me, but i appreciated all the offers for help. Volunteers were also very friendly