Started out in the water, but it was never more then chest deep the whole time. Pretty good down stream current that helped push everyone. People kept standing up looking like goffers popping out of the water. Most of them were far enough way that they didn't get in my way, just caught my attention. I couldn't see well for three reasons. First the sun just crested over the bridges onto the water when we started, so there was terrible sun glare. Maybe better goggles would help that. I literally couldn't see the person swimming next to me because of glare. Then there was the sediment in the water so I couldn't see far which meant that I was breathing every other stroke instead of my normal pool stroke of every 3. I did switch sides a couple of time but most was breathing on the right side. No glare over there. I was feeling like I was left behind until I smacked my first person and it was a guy. The guys were in 2 waves 3 and 6 mins ahead of all women and teams. Then i felt better because I knew I was catching up on people, just a bit to the right of most swimmers. They told us to go between these 2 archs on the first bridge, but apparently I was the only one listening because everyone else was one arch closer to the island. that probly wasted close to a min of my time. gr
Other wise I didn't breaststroke the whole time, my breathing was fine.

stay a little closer to the island, get better goggles, practice more OWS so the not seeing doesn't bother me so much. I just am afraid of hitting people, going off course

I do not have clips, so I had to sit down and put on my sneakers on and tie them, that was most of the time. I also put on a camleback to have water since I only had one water bottle on the bike and I but gatoraid in it.

water down the gatoraid and not wear the camleback

WINDY it was so windy going up, I know there were times I was down under 14. I aimed for 19 on the way down and 20 on the way back, but I was falling short. My legs were just to beat to keep up to where I wanted to be. I did get up to 24.2 at one point, but really for the most I kept between 17-20mph.


My camelback. The baby chewed through the mouth piece, so I was fighting with it and it distracted me. it ended up slowly dripping on me the whole way, but the bigger proble was it was hard to control the flow which made breathing and drinking hard. so either get a second bottle mounted, live with just one, or not let kids play with mommy's tri stuff

haha, one advantage, I was already in my sneakers. I just switched out my helmet for my visor. then I was off again

I RAN THE WHOLE WAY. ok it was much more like a jog, but I was doing all I could. I was only tempted to walk at the beginning of the first lap, then I was fine. It was mentally good and bad to have so many people passing me. Good because I knew I beat them in the combined swim/bike. Bad because it frustrated me that I couldn't run fast enough for them to at least not pass me.

streched a bit, walked around in circles. Right after I crossed the finish line they took off the time chip and tied my shoe that had been un tied for the whole last mile, but I didn't want to stop and tie it.


muscle pain. Just need more training to get better.


They had bull horns to talk, but no one could hear them at any time. started late and no one said, hey get to the other end of the island to start the swi. that would of been helpful