The race was good today, really good.
The swim was horrendous. The waves were HUGE, they couldn't get the buoy to
stay out in the water b/c it was so rough so they put two lifeguards in the
ocean and we were supposed to loop around both of them. They were pretty
shallow so it was more of a bouncing run than anything except when the waves
hit and I would dive under. The second turn with the second lifeguard is where
disaster struck. He/She was positioned at the end of the sharp rock jetty and
what we were supposed to do was swim around her and head back to the beach.
Well, it was pretty confusing and super rough and so what happened was people were
getting smashed into the rock jetty. Probably 80% of the racers today were
bleeding from some part of their body from the swim. I immediately
figured out what was happening when I got close to the second lifeguard and
swam past her about 20 yards and turned and headed straight into the beach.
Then, I ran up and over the rock Jetty on the dry land, there was NO was I was
going to badder myself on those rocks. So anyway, I was the first woman out of
the water and out of the transition. I was the first woman on my bike and held
my lead for about 5 miles before being passed by another girl. I was in sight
of the pace car which never happens so that was cool. I held second place until
about mile 11.5 and some girl snaked me at the end of the ride. I took off on
the run as 3rd place woman, past the 2nd place woman and finished a strong
second place woman finish overall and first place in my age group. It was a
good race and I'm glad I did it.
The race consisted of: .75k Swim, 20k Bike, 5k Run and my finish time was 1:05.56
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