So I guess if I lived on the left coast this would be the norm - five foot waves and rip tides. I can't say that I really swam. It was combination flailing and body surfing. We went out straight into and against breakers trying to swim against the current and the waves as much as possbile so by the time we were dragged back we would be around the first bouy. This tip was supplied by the women who went out first. Most of whom were swept far right and had to struggle to get back and around. The guys on shore immediately started moving up the beach for a better angle. Once around the bouy we were beyond the hard breakers but unfortunately I got pushed in again. Made it difficult and sometimes impossible to site and breath on either side or even while treading water. Pretty much body surfed as best I could to the final bouy and then back into shore where I got dumped another two times trying to get to my feet. If it were a water park - fun. Being that it was a race, well, that sucked.

12:11???? Well with the shortened swim we had to run the better part of 800 meters on the beach back to shoes (if you left them) on the boardwalk and then another 800 meters up (and I mean up hill) to the transition. I was so in a a state of whatever that I stopped to use the rest room. This wasn't a race that I would sacrifice hygiene for speed.

We are subject to the elements what can I say.

A friend of mine came out on the course and was just before the turn around point. A good distraction and a little bit of a kick in the butt to push harder. I was holding back a little on the way out because I didn't know how much I would tire in the wind. Hammered on the way home though. Saw a rider down with emergency vehicles in pursuit. I think a guy in the sprint distance got hit by a car. Not cool.

Quick ties doing the trick. I was so hyper off the bike I got through transition and didn't quite know what happened and missed the first aid station at the start of the run. Comparatively that was a step in the right direction for me.

On my last mile I passed a woman who was foaming at the hips. Seriously. Like Bobby Brady putting too much soap in the clothes washer episode kind of suddsing. What could that have been?

Nothing. This is the part of all my races when I make up all my time. I kept my streak alive to four races now that I haven't been passed on the run. I don't know if that speaks more to my running or the fact that I am such a slacker in the other disciplines.

Walking back down the hill to run it again with Jen.


I just didn have my A game today...too many puts and missed chances around the green - oh I'm sorry that was Tiger Woods.

Thrown off by the swim and just wanting to survive. Anything after that was gravy.


Great, great volunteers. Really pretty area but the run course needs some working on. Its too bad that they have had hard luck witht the swim. A race 24 hours ealier and it would have been perfect. What can you do?