Water was of comortable temperature but was very chopy. This lead to feeling like I was swiming in a washing mashine. Thie chop made it very difficult to sight where I was going and forced several changes to breaststroke just to confirm where I wa.

Need to work on sighting better. This caused significant discomfort on knowing where I was.

Still struggle to get Bike Jersey on and the socks were a bit of a challenge as well.

Use the black sock and roll them on. A tri top would be helpful to save some significant time in transition. A tri-bike shoe in the future would also be helpful.

This was a solid effort in the ride. Stayed pretty much in the 140-150 HR area with the exception of the hils that had to be climbed. Picked up one place in the age group, one spot in the gender and and 10 places overall.

Maybe back off the the pace on the bike a bit to save more for the run. This is the second tri now that I was pretty smoked going into the run.

Was pretty tired coming into this trasition and used it to catch my breath.

Do a better job of racking the bike. That seemed to cause some unneeded delay.

Pretty much bonked going into the start of the run. Was not able to hold a run for much more than 1/2 mile to 1/4 mile at a time.

Try to have something still in the tank. By just being able to hold a run all the way to the end should be able to drop about 10 minutes off my total time.

Just stretching an cooling off.


I suspect less than adequate fueling and hydration did not help my performance. More confidence in my open water swiming would probably helped a well.


This is a small-ish event that is good for the in-experienced triathlete.