Tupper Lake Tinman Triathlon - Half Iron Distance - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Lake was very calm and waves were quite spread out and not too big so made for pretty good swim conditions. My navigation wasn't that great, particularly when I started sighting off what turned out to be two orange swim caps in the final third of the race!

Swim speed primarily limited by technique. Level of effort was good. Need to concentrate on sighting a bit more accurately

Felt fine.

Not much

Executed bike as planned. Hadn't seen course before so was a bit of a voyage of discovery. First race on new wheels, but conditions were pretty perfect as dry roads and little wind

Drink all of my planned fluids even though it was cold.

As this was a warm-up race for Placid I decided to put on socks and use regular laces in T2, which explains my slower than T1 time. Overall I was pretty happy with the time given the issue of putting socks on wet feet.

Not much

I wasn't sure I was going to run due to ongoing achilles injury, but it didn't feel too bad after the bike so decided to complete the course. The weather could not have been more perfect, overcast and then some showers towards the end. This course would be very different in the sun as there is very little shade.

I no doubt could have pushed harder, but this wasn't my A race and I was concerned about making injury worse four weeks away from Placid. Overall a solid run and was happy with the pace (despite being passed by a what felt like half of my age group)

Race provided Turkey and gravy dinner - perfect on this cool day but might have been tough to get down had it been hot. Then quickly off back to motel to drink beer while watching USA get knocked out of the World Cup!


Run fitness primarily


I really liked this race and its organisation. The lake is not the nicest in the area, the bike course is not that technical and I wouldn't say Tupper Lake is particularly destinational. But the whole package, including the friendliness of the volunteers and racers make this a really great race to experience. Look forward to racing Tupper again.