LA Tri Series #3 - Championship Distance - TriathlonOlympic

Work on speeding up my swim.

Pay more attention to the traffic, got caught up a bit and slowed down fighting the crowds.

Lots of squirrely people at the transition exit, jogged past to mouth and was almost taken out by a guy falling into me. SCARY!

Avoid more of the crowd, transition exit was tight and really clogged with short course athletes on mountain bikes.

Need more hill work and really need a bike fit for the aero bars.

Nothing, overall a good effort

Slipped on the cleats dismounting and went down. Not bad just surprising. Racked the bike and into the shoes quickly. Great transition

Nothing, I hope all my T2's are this good.

Decent run, I was hoping to maintain 8:15 but the hills and footing made that tough. Overall a decent run coming off the bike, negative split the second half which was good.

Not much, pretty good run overall.

Walked to transition to grab my recovery drink and packed up.


I can't believe that a race that has been in existence for 30 years and that charges this much, doesn't cover parking in the park, doesn't have finisher medals or decent post race activities. As someone who is connected to several races I know that a little reinvestment goes a long way and they fail miserably. This is obviously a family that is more interested in lining their pockets with cash than they are taking care of the athletes. The Expo was almost nonexistent, there was little to no finish line support, a half a peanut butter sandwich and half a banana. Water only on the course with very limited volunteer support.

It is unfortunate because the race itself was good but I will avoid it in the future unless they decide to step up and put some of the money back into the race. When will these Race Directors learn that without athletes they won't have races.