Wild and Wonderful Wilmington
After my first 70.3 (69.1), I returned home feeling proud, relieved and tired... mostly tired. I finished in 7 hours 4 minutes and 9 seconds, was 44th out of 44 for my age group, 1,338th out of 1,354 out of my gender, and 2,117th out of 2,176 overall. A one way ticket to New Zealand for the 70.3 world championships was not in my future any time soon.