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One Last Tri

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After The Race Debbie, Terri and I My last race of the year was yesterday in Utah at the Kokepelli Triathlon.  I did the Olympic Triathlon.  I was fresh off of the Worlds 70.3 Half Ironman just one week ago.  I didn’t have any expectations for this race. I just wanted to have fun and race with friends and clients.  I signed up to race OPEN category because I wanted to start in the first wave.  This way I could finish and see everyone else finish.  I have never raced in OPEN.  I have raced ELITE and it was a very competitive group.  OPEN was different because really anyone can sign up to race in this category.  We were getting the swim course instructions from the race director and I was halfway paying attention.  I am a good swimmer but never in the front so I just follow everyone.  The buoys were kind of confusing because they had buoys out there for boats and swimmers.  The swimmers buoys were spread far apart.  We...