The lake was 100% different than when I did the Dude Girl last October! It was full and near the transition area. Started just behind some men on the left side near the front. Got a good rhythm going and I knew I was one fo the first women to come in.

Probably do a nice warm-up and stretch. And in hindsight, might have gone without the wetsuit, it didn't feel all THAT cold!

Was a little bit dizzy coming out of the water, but got the top of the wetsuit pulled down and ran to my bike, and then struggled to get the darned thing off my legs. Felt a little unsteady, but got socks on and the shoes and helmet and Garmin and got out of dodge.

Not wear the wetsuit??

When I did the Dude Girl, we took the bike route counter-clockwise, today we went clockwise, HUGE difference!! Not enough downhills to get momentum up the uphills. I had 2 men pass me at the very beginning of the ride and I did not see them again. I passed one female who I think was part of a relay team, and then had 3 men pass me in the last 4 miles or so, but I kept them in sight and didn't fall too far back. Most of the time I was riding all by myself. I tried to take this like a training ride and not burn out the legs, and took the last 1-2 miles nice and easy... I had one man pass me in the run and tell me how hard it was to catch me on the bike (he was 44, ha ha!)

Need more time in the saddle and more hill work!!! I had hoped to see my average pace at least at 18 mph, but that wasn't happening with all the hills!

Felt like this was a pretty good transition, except someone had hung my wetsuit over the bike rack and it took me a couple of tries to get my bike hooked up. Ditched the helmet, got the shoes on, grabbed the hat/race belt/small sweat towel in one swoop and took off!

Just get the dang bike hung up!

Stupid Garmin wouldn't switch over from the bike?? Had to turn it off and restart it, so I'm sure I had a bit of a slower start because of that. Legs felt pretty good off the bike, not the usual bricky feeling. Heart rate felt very high for the first mile, and I consciously tried to slow down. Mile 2 I got into a rhythm, and walked through the last water stop, other than that I was able to run the whole thing!! First time for that distance, yea!!

Need to keep working on the run, more long runs, and more bike so that I have more endurance coming off the bike leg.

Got a drink, met Hugh (another BT'er) and talked with Tammy and some others. After awhile, the puking feeling went away and I was able to eat a hot dog and some fig newtons, but then I got cold so I put some clothes on over my tri suit.


Hills on the bike!!! Sucky run times!!!


This event was not chip-timed!! So no offical splits, just an official overall time. Because it was so small, almost everyone got an award... I received 1st place Grand Master female, but I was 5th female overall out of 16 and the oldest person in the whole race!! I was pretty proud that I beat out all those youngsters, ha ha!

Took almost a week for race results to be posted??! Considering there were no splits, it shouldn't have been any different than posting a 5K... kind of frustrating.