i wanted to respond to your post yesterday, but my computer was being silly and wouldn't let me log in to TE.

I'm so proud! (i did a bit of 'remember that girl i went mountain biking with a few months ago? well she's in the XTerra NATIONALS this weekend) heheh

I'm glad that all the difficulties were worth it, in the end, and I really think your performance was good considering it was your first event of this stature and in such a different setting with all those traveling stressors involved in it. Good job and keep on rocking it!

K.