Swim
Comments: Typical Tuesday night weather - threat of thunderstorms!! The swim starts in 3 waves - the under 1 hour people, the men, then the women. As soon as wave 1 went off, there was thunder in the distance. the life guards pulled all the recreational swimmers out of the water. The race organizers stood there with their phones watching the radars and decided to hold the other 2 waves back for 10 minutes and then "it should clear." Well it just got darker and darker and finally they decided to let us go - first the men, then the women with only 1 minute between us (usually 2 or 3). So the swim was a cluster!! Now I know what they mean when they say the swim is a "washing machine." The women caught the back of the men's wave pretty quickly. The swim went by so fast - all I was doing was watching waves and dodging bodies! Good practice for IMMT I suppose. But I had my best swim yet! I guess that's what thunder and lightning does. Transition 1
Comments: I'm getting the hang of this and it's been pretty consistent Bike
Comments: The bike!! about 2/3 through it was so dark you could hardly see the trail in front of you....and then the rain came. TORRENTIAL. I mean we've ridden in the rain before but never like this!! On the downhills the water was rushing past me faster then I was pedaling! It was really cool and scary as hell!! I had my 2nd fastest bike time! I'm definitely I mudder! Transition 2
Comments: Then when we got back they didn't let us go out for the run. I'm not sure if they'll count our points or not because the timing is now a cluster. I sure hope they do! I beat DH! Run
Comments: No run (can't say I was really upset about it). Post race
Event comments: It was definitely a different race this week! Wicked fun and scary! edited to add: RD just announced this race will not count in the point series because there were too many dnfs :( Last updated: 2015-07-22 12:00 AM
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United States
85F / 29C
Overcast
Overall Rank = ?/?
Age Group = f4044
Age Group Rank = 0/
HOLY CRAP is all I can say about this race - you'll see why.................