It was... WET. WET WET WET. I felt pretty dang slow, especially on the bike -- I don't usually bike in the rain in the summer, it's a lot more dry on my side of the mountains. Hard to prepare for that when it's out of season, I'd have to drive to find rain. All the turns were really cautious, no sudden movements or avoiding people, watching a lot more closely for slippery obstacles.

I also had the awesome skill of dropping my flask right as I started the bike, clearly not learning from the last sprint I did where I promised I'd buy a Bento Box. You can bet that's what I'm doing now. Anyway, that made me short a couple hundred calories for the bike, which I felt on the hills. Bumma! Ah well, all in good fun.

I also decided because of the sheer quantity of people, it's hard to race Danskin like other things. A lot more strategizing is required or you end up wanting to swim, bike, or run over the top of people, and I'm not good at being pushy. My swimming has improved a lot since last year when my rotator cuff killed badly enough that I couldn't actually crawl. It felt awesome to swim this year, I wasn't even pushing (too crowded, go with the flow).

Amusingly, I missed my swim wave, so my time was 3 minutes off. Stupid stupid stupid, but there were just so many people to wade through. My husband knew right away that I had missed my wave -- I was the yellow cap passing all of the green caps, ending up in the back of the yellow pack I should have started in. I wear my watch on my right hand and breathe to my left, which is a dead giveaway with binoculars.

Swim: 00:15:09 (approx, with the 3 minutes taken off, official time based on the wave I didn't actually start in was 00:18:09)
T1: 00:05:47
Bike: 00:44:51 (16.5mph -- dang! 2.5mph slower than I expected!)
T2: 00:03:25
Run: 00:30:32 (9:51 pace)
Total: 1:39:47 - approx 960/3498 (hard to say since I wasn't ranked correctly)

I would have preferred overcast, no rain. I love overcast.

A couple of decent pictures:
http://www.brightroom.com/view_user_...hotos&BIB=3236
http://www.brightroom.com/view_user_...hotos&BIB=3236