Me: Do you know how many girls were ahead of me?
USC person: Out the swim?
Me: No, at the end. You know I don’t care about the swim.
The answer was six. It was a competitive race for a local collegiate sprint. But, it gave me a good idea of where I stack up two months out from nationals.
Kelly O'Mara 
[…] UCSD Tri: Did the UC San Diego sprint race and, wow, I almost had a total mental breakdown in the middle of this. The summary is: I couldn’t figure out why so many people were ahead of me. (The answer—that they’re going faster—should have been obvious.) […]