Denise, that is SO COOL that Tony's interested!!! Keep us posted. I agree that your pix reflect your level of fitness. You just got slammed by the wind. Bad luck, nothing about your training, and probably not really even your nutrition. It's a helluva race anyway, made so much worse by the wind. I think of Tim DeBoom in the back of an ambulance at Kona one year--he had a kidney stone. Of all days, why that day?!? But it happens. Peter Reid with MRSA, etc. You're now in the elite ranks of wounded IM warriors who come back to fight another day! love, L.