Blue Lake Women's Triathlon---anyone done this?

[Susan Otcenas]

I'm so ignorant...I signed up in my age group rather than Athena (I weigh about 175 just now). Should I have gone for Athena, do you think? What are the advantages/disadvantages?

There's no requirement to sign up for Athena. I raced Athena the last time I did it for 2 reasons.
1) I wanted to support the category and thereby communicate to the organizers that women of ALL shapes and sizes were coming out for their events, and
2) because I wanted to see how I stacked up against women "like me", who were not the lean, hard-body types.

(Incidentally, I know that there are plenty of 150+ hard bodies out there and plenty of 130 flabby bodies out there.... But you see what I'm getting at. I hope. )

Susan