Well not the best start for us, but we're feeling good about it. We are in 8th and about 10 minutes back from leaders. We had a bit of a rough start as I absolutely SUCK at swimming and probably lost us about 5 minutes. The teams up front are very good paddlers so we lost a couple of minutes there but hung onto the middle of the pack. The jungle 1k "run", was more of a slippery sloppy trek as it had rained all last night and made the trail a bit of a disaster, couldn't make up any ground there. It was fun though and apparently is Malaysia's oldest rain forest. We got in a much better rhythm once we got on land. The bike was short and quick and we did fine on the muddy dirt road section. We caught and passed 2 teams on the hill climb. Then it was a 5 k run to the finish. We were hoping to be more like 6 minutes out of the lead, but are confident that are racing will only get better. Between the swim, long kayak, and having such a short bike, we knew today was going to be the toughest for us. But we are psyched to go hard tomorrow on our skates and close the gap and leave nothing out there as we have a rest day afterwards.
That's all from Malaysia. Yes, we are drinking lots of water and recovering well. We both feel fine and ready to rock. :)
-Mari
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