I got RESCUED during a tri!!!

[light_sabe_r]

O_O

Yesterday I completed the Bribie Island Short Course Triathlon and I almost drowned.

I think I am a "FAIR" swimmer. I'm no Libby Lenton but I know I can swim 300m. I can even swim in the surf.

Yesterday was a 300m tidal assissted swim. BUT The conditions were terrible. It wasn't like the surf where there's a pattern to the waves when you can feel the water dragging you forwards or back depending on where the wave was.

Nope. the water was so choppy that every time I took a breath I ended up with a lungful of water - Not air.

I ended up treading water for a bit when all of a sudden I found myself on a livesaver's board. PHEW. I chilled out there while I hacked up whatever salt water went down came straight back up. I was physically sick but continued the reamining 100m of the swim. Ended up 7th out of 8 yet still managed a decent 4th place ride of just under 30mins for 13km. Not bad considering on the ride I was still having a gag reflex.

Toughest tri I've ever done. Even tougher than the Caloundra Tri where the distance was longer and I came dead last!

I will do bribie again and hopefully there won't be as much chop.




Has anyone else needed to be rescued??? Or am I just really that sad. (Apparently the life savers had their hands full yesterday)