Just trying to stay comfortable. It's hard to swim right after a run, but it's also hard NOT to push it in a short run race.

The course was supposed to be 2 miles, but unless someone slipped me some steroids, it was WAYYY short!

Who knows.

Just took a little extra time to pour water on the goggles to make sure they stayed sealed on my face.

Nothing. Just wanted to treat this race casually.

I was VERY winded after the first run. I even asked myself why I was going so sluggish and realized that I was going as fast as I could go considering how out of breath I was!

Nothing. Being out of breath is just the nature of the beast.

Pretty cut-and-dry. Went without socks for the second run because I figured it'd take too long to put them on with wet feet.

Nothing. Did well.

Although I wasn't in this to get a great time, I knew that a few people passed me in the swim and I also knew that if I could beat them in a run once, I could do it twice. I passed two people fairly quickly after the run started, and saw a third person with about 1/2 mile to go. Overtook her in ~1/4 mile more and didn't let anyone else pass me to the finish.

Nothing. Very happy with my performance.

Easy jog with another athlete over the whole course again.


70+ mile training ride I did on Thursday!


I'm very disappointed in this race...not my performance, but the way it was put on. Race packet HAD to be picked up on Friday at the expo (which closed at 6PM) so those of us driving in from out of town after work were screwed. They told us that as long as the right paperwork was given, someone could pick it up for me. Sue was nice enough to do that, but they STILL gave her a hard time about it!

Then on race morning we HAD to leave the hotel by ~7:30 to be at a race that doesn't start until 9:30 because of the logistics of parking, shuttling, etc.

They said transition was to open at 8:30AM and close at 9AM. Unfortunately, the kids triathlons also held that morning were still going on and we didn't even get in there until 9:00! Finally got that set up and were herded out as a group to the run start.

After standing in the sun for about 5 minutes, they told us that the holdup was because the buoys weren't set up right yet. OMG! THE BUOYS WEREN'T EVEN READY??? They actually let us stand in the shade at the side of the road until they got that straightened out.

Then it's on to the run which was SOOOOO short it's unbelieveable! And after all that sprinting the after-event festivities included water and Powerade. OMG! Not a bagel or banana to be seen! THEN I found out that there weren't even any medals to be awarded. How lame is that??? I could've lived with that (there were only 80 men&women in the whole event) if it weren't for everything else. That was, by far, the lamest event I've ever been in.