I had a great first race! I really enjoyed the morning and tried to do my best. My swim was good - I wasn't freaked out and I had a better time than planned. My bike was awesome and I exceeded my goals there too. My run was disappointing, about 2 minutes slower than I had hoped, but I was at my max and couldn't have gone any faster. The transition area was a long way from the swim so it was tough to be any faster on T1, but I missed my spot in T2 and had to back track which cost me about 30 seconds. I loved the bike - I passed 29 women and a lot of men who had started in a wave 10 minutes earlier. What a rush!! If had met my transition and run goals, I would have placed but was it was I was extremely giddy to do as well as I did. Yahoo - I wanna do another!!

(Interesting to note, there was a 54% increase in participants this year. My overall time would have given me a first place in my age group by 7 minutes! last year. The 1st and 2nd place women in my AG were amazingly fast and actually came in 4th and 9th overall and were 16-18 minutes faster than me - yikes!)

Swim - 17:13 - 5/11 AG - 55/113 overall
T1 - 3:01 - 6/11 AG - 73/113
Bike - 38:18 - 3/11 AG - 16/113
T2 - 1:49 - 6/11 AG - 88/113
Run - 29:45 - 7/11 AG - 77/113

Overall: 1:30:04 - 4/11 AG - 55/113

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