Bangs Lake Multisport Festival - Triathlon - Aquabike

Started off ok, but quickly realized I couldn't see well at all. Spit and rinsed goggles to avoid fogging but the wetness of the lenses caused everything to be unclear. Looked up way too much, did breastroke to sight better, was inside the buoys a couple times....I think all that stressed me out and made my heartrate go even higher than it would have. Was gassed 1/2 way through and cursing to myself. At least it was not too congested, hardly had any contact. Was able to draft the last 200m or so. Can't believe I wasn't slower than I was time-wise...happy with the time all things considered.

New goggles so I can SEE, train more in the swim so 1500m wasn't so difficult. Seemed harder than even my IM swim last year.

Not very fast, as usual. I was gassed and was more concerned about getting heartrate down.

Not grab the wrong helmet and sunglasses, move faster.

Quads were on fire starting off, maybe due to 300 yard primarily uphill run to transition from swim and the first part of bike being slightly uphill. Was thinking that I felt terrible and bike would suffer. About 3/4 way through first loop started feeling a little better but heartrate never settled down. Because of that I didn't feel like I could tolerate gel, but probably should have taken one.

At no point during the ride did I think I'd exceed my expectations based on how I was feeling, but ended up at just under 22mph so I was happy.

Push a little harder maybe, not "give up" mentally at the beginning, take gel

groin muscle was killing me, probably thanks to doing breastroke a few times, so just limped around and got some food


giving up mentally during the swim and first part of the bike......need to HTFU


Good volunteers and security on bike course, but not much direction from RD's pre-race