Surviving...

Holy Hell....I'm still having things that hurt that I didn't know I had! My knees are a wreck if I'm on them for too long, my right achilles is toast, my left hip is almost dysfunctional and I'm just not quite working right. But that's ok. We've moved from our little casino/hotel in with my parents in their condo. Hung out down on the strip for a while last night and that was interesting. Headed out to do a little bit of shopping here in awhile too. CIRQUE SHOW TONIGHT, so I'm super stoked about that. Then it'll be time to lock down and get ready to head home tomorrow.

Awards breakfast was yesterday. Since I finished kinda later than I anticipated, I didn't really know where I was in the standings or how that stacked up. Got to hear Dave Scott and Macca both speak yesterday, as well as some great words from Race Director Frank as well (who is still no longer my friend). All-in-all, a great experience, though not one I intend to repeat next year. One is enough for awhile.

But here are the stats from the race:

-4th or 5th overall swim time

-14:43:32 (fourteen hours)

-83rd out of 137 finishers

-12th woman out of 23 (I think)

-First in my age group (technically 3rd, but one of them was the first woman overall and one was the first woman from Nevada, so they roll out of the age grp and I bumped up)

From what I can tell, about 30 some people started the race and didn't finish, but there were a bit over 200 on the participant list, so I'm not sure what happened there.

A full race report will be in the works, with more pictures, but I've still got a lot going on out here and am still hurting. So....stay tuned.