I was extremely happy with this time on the swim!!! i felt very strong the whole way through but i could not see anything! the swim buoys were about 1/3 mi apart so they were very hard to see in the first place plus we were swimming out into the sun. not good. but i just kept pulling and breathing and trying to keep people close to me so i knew i was going the right way. I think i kept a good line on the way out but on the way back i picked what i thought was a nice building to sight towards but it turned out to be a moving boat...haha. oops! ended up being way off to the left on the way back in and had to stop and lift up my goggles 2xs so that i could figure out where the crap i had gone.

keep working on swimming faster and not follow a boat :)

Good T1

nothing really.

Once again very happy with my bike ride! i love riding my bike :D my goal was just to keep a 18.5 pace but i was feeling good and not pushing it so i let myself go!!! the first hill sucked but i think i passed 8 or so people up it which was nice hehe. passed alot of people on the bike and was only passed by 2 others and ended up catching and passing them back at about mi 40 :D it was fun to cruise bye all the cervelos ect with their zipps...i want some!!!! took a gu every 30 min and drank gatorade for the first 2/3's of the ride and then switched to water for the last 1/3 so that my stomach wouldnt have to deal with it on the run...(EL)

maybe even push more??

i knew coming into the race that i had not put in enough running time and my longest run was 9.5 miles...and not on hills like these so i cant really complain about this time. felt surprisingly good out of T2 untill i started hitting the hills which really hurt! i tried to run up halfway and then walk the second half but there were a few that i walked the whole thing. ran the first 3 mi by myself and then ran with a guy doing 7:50's for a while until about mile 6 when i was too tired to keep up. made the turn and was really pissed that i had to do the hills again lol but i kept going. got to about mile 7.5 and saw a donkey jersey in front of me and it was morey!!! i was so glad to find him and be able to run with him because it really kept me going. we ran to aid stations and then refueled and walked up the big hills. morey even hooked me up with some water from his fuel belt...what a guy :D im pretty sure i would not have broke 5:30 without him. morey cramped up at about mi 11 so i kept going and kicked hard to catch the guy in front of me with about .8 to go.

more running in training :D

woooooohooooooooooooooo i beat my goal by 33 minutes and cant wait to race again :D