Cardinal Harbour Triathlon - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Wear flippers.

One of the faster T1 times.

Steady effort, spinning the hills. Wind in our face coming back on 42 (~9 mph). Split is a course record.

One of the other racers drafted off me for about 20 miles before I finally lost him. Annoying because he would briefly passed me on the steeper climbs and then dropped back in my draft once we got rolling again.

One of the faster T2 times.

Take my cycling shoes off before running down the ramp.

They changed the course this year, making it quite a bit hillier. The hills+heat+humidity got to me and I had to take many brief walk breaks to lower HR/recover. Head index was 98F.

Need to learn to run comfortably on tired legs at a slower pace. When my legs are tired, it hurts more to run slow than fast. This drive up my HR and I then walk to bring it down.

Lay in the shade and moan.


I was thrilled to place 1st OA, but I feel like I should be able to run better than this.


They did a good job on this race based on what I saw. Plenty of aid stations, good course marking/direction. Biggest problem was the brutal heat/humidity on the run. They also needed an aid station on the last section of the run when I went thru, but after a few of us mentioned it, the RD added an aid station for the remaining racers.