It was REAL COOL. I am so excited that Dex and I both finished our first tri! My results are about what I expected: need to keep working on swim efficiency; am very pleased with the bike leg and felt really strong during it; sure would like to run the run instead of walk it, after the stress fracture is completely healed.

It's impressive that Danskin can run 3,710 athletes through this tri as smoothly as they did. It damn well was choppy out there and the morning started with lightning and a little squall edge. It was annoyingly calm by the time we left.

We have some great pics from last night's pre-race dinner, and good pics from today. Will post them later...

By the way, we DID see the deaf-blind athlete on her run. And the final finisher is a woman currently undergoing cancer treatment. It really is quite amazing what people can do.

Rocknrollgirl, great stuff!