Swim was okay. I never felt like I got into a real groove. Everytime I took a breath it seemed I was surrounded by blue caps. I was really surprised to find out I was one of the first from our wave out of the water. I also learned that you don't wear dark tinted goggles on dark rainy days -- I couldn't see anything!

Clear goggles.

Could not get my wetsuit off. I stood, I sat, I stood...ugh. FINALLY it came off. Debated about wearing arm warmers and/or a jacket. I opted to wear the just the jacket and socks (thank goodness).

Consider getting a new wetsuit.

Get the cheese - 'cause here comes the whine! This sucked! I was actually having a great ride up until about mile 13.

Then I start to get a shooting pain in parts unmentioned thanks to a varicose vein. This causes me to start wiggling around on my saddle trying to relieve the pain. All this did was lead to more pain. By trying to compensate for the pain in my vein my lower back started to spasm. By mile 18 I was in tears. I REALLY wanted to just pull over and lay down in the grass. But I didn't. I kept going...one mile at a time. I've never been so happy to see a transition in my life.

I'm going to put my old Terry saddle back on and have adjustments done. I'm also considering surgery. :(

My husband said I looked pissed when I came into T2 (I was). Decided to keep the jacket on for the run and I'm glad I did. I was really comfortable temp-wise the whole run.

My run actually felt really good. I had hoped to keep my time under 1 hour and I did. My feet were frozen for the first half mile (that hurts!) I felt really good when I hit the first aid station at mile 1. I paced with another runner until mile 2 but then she fell back. At mile 3 I picked up another pacer behind me and we basically pushed each other through the rest of the HILLY course. At every mile marker I kept thinking "I'm going to cramp up at any minute" but I didn't. By the time I hit mile 4 I knew I had made it.

It was great to feel so strong after my bike ordeal (or because of my bike ordeal?).

I immediately started stretching. I also greabbed some red beans and rice (yumm!), water and endurox. I used the long walk back to the car as my main warm-down.


Pain. But I guess that's not suppose to be a limiting factor in triathlon. ;)


It was my first Oly and I'm glad it's behind me. :)