In September 2005 I did my first triathlon — the Santa Cruz Sentinel – about two weeks after crashing my bike for the first time. My junior and senior year at UC Berkeley, I raced for the Cal Triathlon team (National Champions!) and won a few conference races, sucked at a few national races, and fell down a lot.

In 2008, I started racing for Team Pacific Bikes and took the age group course record at the Triathlon at Pacific Grove. I also broke my toe that race, but did Age Group Nationals a week later anyway. It sucked.

2010 was my first year racing as an elite/pro triathlete. Generally in big races, I finished towards the back of the middle of the pro women’s race; sometimes I finished at the very back. Sometimes, some amateurs beat me too, but really they should probably have been in the elite/pro race. *cough* You can see all my results from the last few years here.

Here is an article about me and triathlon.

My favorite races are Escape from Alcatraz and the San Francisco Triathlon at Alcatraz, Pacific Grove (even though I did not do as well as a pro), and the Chicago Triathlon.

In 2012, I’m sort of taking a small, sort of break from triathlon. I just got a little bored and worn out of it. This year, I’ll be running and doing some stuff just for fun.