What a great video! The Spongebob "...it's a rock!" reference cracked me up. I live in Morro Bay and can attest that the current in the marina is no joke! I often stand on the shore in amazement because it looks like a river flowing. Ive seen kayakers give up and just go to the nearest shore because there were unable to kayak up the current back to their loading spot. Major props to you with your amazing finish and to all of you who were able to endure that insane swim. You're amazing and I thoroughly enjoyed this content. Congratulations!

I also was super confused by the swim because I thought I was doing something wrong. I expected to finish in 33 minutes but it took me 45. Glad I was able to get out of the water!

Great effort! I watched my friend race and was so confused about why he took so long on his swim. As I returned to the finish line, I saw so many swimmers get picked out of the water! I felt bad that they DNF. Glad you made it out alive!!

Doing work! IM should consider bringing back Vineman and Santa Rosa races..

I am glad that I DNS, mentally crippling, really well done!!!

Great video!

Congrats 🙂 Great Video and so nice to joined the journey 🔥 Big motivation for my own first Ironman70.3 💪💥

Awesome job Annie! Congratulations on another podium. Super fun hanging out with you two for the weekend.

Congrats on an amazing race and another podium! Loved getting to meet you this weekend :)

Ironman CA is like the first half of that swim except it gets faster and faster 😂

great!!

So cool! (I'm an ex-googler and my husband is a googler) And I do triathlons too. Congrats!!

IM California was my 1st full IM I did in 2019. Great race! Super fast swim

Congratulations on your strong performance!!! I was one of the many who DNFd and not allowed to continue on the bike. I still jumped into the run. They couldn't take THAT from me!

Congratulations on 2nd place❗️❗️

There was a 15 ft female Great White swimming in the inlet 3 years ago. Ya never know what's out there. Morro Bay and the Central Coast is such a great spot.

The videos and talk about the swim are starting to hit the "airwaves"... Sounds like Morrow Bay got very lucky there were no deaths. Someone at the front office made a bad decision and ultimately this is bad for the sport. I appreciate your truthful comments about the swim segment.... some of the other videos I've watched were like... "Dude!! the swim was so knarly"!!..."Dude"??"...knarly??" How "knarly" would it have been if someone drowned? and you're made a great point...the slower swimmers are in the back for a reason, they are not the stronger swimmers and guaranteed there was some first-time racers in the back (I'm sure they were already nervous and somewhat ill-prepared) ...this made for a series of potential catastrophic events. Someone at Morrow Bay needed to do better. You ran an incredible race, and you look like a great triathlete. I am subscribed.

Great video! What power pedals do you have?

It’s that race. Have died in the race

Bad weekend for Ironman. I raced 70.3 Chattanooga and the bike course was a mess.