Oh wow. Longest swim of my life. Thought that the entire time too. Got to the first buoy and was like holy crap that took a long time. I was hoping it was all in my head but no such luck. It really did take me a while. There was lake seaweed for the first 100 meters and that was delicious! Especially fun when it webbed in your fingers and toes.

Oh man. Well to start with train. I can say with absolute certainty the reason for this time is my lack of training in the past month. It's been a long December er I mean April/May :) I've had to make two unexpected and emotional trips home which cut the swim training completely out. I believe I've swam 3 times in the last 3 weeks and who knows before that.

I could not get the stupid wetsuit off! It just added to my awesome time in the water. All I could think about during the swim ws get me to my bike. Then it took me 2 minutes to get my wetsuit off. Nice.

Be faster with the removal of the wetsuit. Other than that I did well. Peed in motion and got out quick.

My head was still in the water at the beginning of the bike. Plus it was FREEZING. I don't feel like I really pushed the bike on the first half of the course like I could have. There were hardly no riders around when I was on bike due to my SLOW swim. I did manage to pass a couple people on bike but mostly I was out there alone. I didn't start having fun or really racing until the middle of the course. I had a bad attitude let's just say. I was ready for the run. Looking forward to it actually.

Push myself a little harder. Even though there's no one around to physically race I'm still racing the clock. Let go of the swim.

Transition went smoothly. Couldn't find my race number and I put my wet wetsuit on top of my running shoes but besides that it was good.

Don't throw my wetsuit on top of my running shoes because they will be wet when I go to put them on.

Run went great. I did make a pit stop at porta pot at mile 1 which was unavoidable. I would have been miserable. Despite stopping I had a great run. Felt strong the entire time. I was never passed(not too many people behind me anyway) but I did manage to catch up (and pass) a bunch of people on the course which was surprising given I saw no one on the bike.

Nothing. Well except try to figure out how not to have to pee but that could be a little difficult.

Massage, food, water. Stayed for the awards..Alexis got 2nd in our AG. Good job friend.


Like I said before my training has been inconsistant and in certain events non-existant in the last month or so due to work and family matters. All of which were unavoidable. I've been a giant ball of stress and this event marked the end of all that. I (as far as I know) from this point forward will be bale to get back to a regular training schedule. I am disappointed in my swim performance and know I can do much better than that with a little consistency. The swim is by far my weakest event so it needs to not be my weakest in training. Not to say I can slack on the other two..just that swimming can't take a back seat.


There needs to be mile markers on the run and bike courses. I had no idea where I was on either. Thankfully on the run course there were spectators who knew and would shout out to us.