OMG, did I ever hyperventilate on this swim, LOL!! It was my first tri and my first OWS, and I couldn't see for sheit with my goggles, argggh!!, snots were running down my nose, LOL...and my hair was falling in my face!! At 100 yards, I removed the sheit goggles and then I could see. At 200 yards, I stopped hyperventilating and actually began to swim, LOL!!
At 400 yards, I was doing much better but dang my arms were tired, LOL!!
but I finished!! I did swim out of the course line a bit here and there, and got called in by the ifeguards, LOL!! I was amazed at how hard it is to swim straight in the oepn water, LOL!! .... but it was way fun, and when I got done with the tri, I wanted to do the swim again!!, LOL!

Oh I would not hyperventilate like I did, LOL!! I don't know why I did, I was just surprised how weak my arms felt and I felt like I couldn't swim, LOL... but I could :) I just needed to calm down a bit and focus which I started to do about 300 yards into the swim :)

Well, what the heck took me 14 minutes you ask!! I was dizzy as heck, that's why!!!!!!! I came out of the swim SO dizzy I thought I was going to fall over :( So I walked through T1, sat down and took off my wetsuit and just chilled a bit. There was no way I could ride a bike anyway in that condition, so I just went slow. Once I got my socks and shoes on, I felt better and got out of T1 with the bike :)

Oh I need to work on this transition big time, LOL!! 4 minutes will not be acceptable next time... LOL!!

I thought was ride was good and fun!! I made up alot of time here for the crappy swim time I had, LOL!! I passed about 15 people I think... but I knew most of the 40+ women were ahead of me because I so svcked at the swim!!, and was probably behind most of them at this point :(

Not much different. I think I ran a good ride here.

Major improvement from my T1 time, but then I didn't have a wetsuit to strip, and I wasn't dizzy!!

Just gotta work on the speed in the transition. This was my first tri and I was just happy to be doing well at this point :)

I sub'd 30 minutes!!, I was pretty shocked and very happy!! Going in my legs felt like lead, LOL!! I thought for sure I would be running a 40 minute 5K... but I was suprised to finish just under 30:00. At mile 1, I felt pretty good, and was confident I was actually going to finish the tri, LOL!!

Oh not much... I think as I train more, I will get stronger in the run as I will the other legs :)

Wish I had had a beer!! No warm down, just some good soda and lots of company from the tri peeps :)


Definitely my swim strength. I really need to work on the swim and get some more open water swims in.


I thought it was a great race!! Very organized, the transition area was well organized :) The volunteers were great and very nice!

I was very happy that Tri-Shark was my first tri experience :)