Black Bear Triathlon - Sprint Course - TriathlonSprint

Swim could not have gone much better. Took a lot of time with body glide on shoulders and neck, and pulling up wetsuit so not to feel tight in the chest and shoulders. Was worried about deep water start( Frist time), but think this is much better than running into the water with 50+ others. Was last to get into water so I did not have to tread water for long. Went out nice and easy hugging the bouy line. sighting was execelent, tried to follow group, and looked up very quickly and not very often. Clear goggles helped with lake water. Picked up the pace afer a couple hundred yards, countinued to bi-latteral breath. Wetsuit felt fast, no issues with fit. felt great getting out of water.

not much, mayby push the pace a little. Best swim thus far.

Took a little longer than it should have.

waited too long to start getting wetsuit off.

Very hilly course. Felt good getting on bike. Course was a constant up and down for the entire 18 miles. was not greatly prepaired for this amount of climbing. overall, did ok, could have been better.

Need to train more outdoors, work on climbing.

forgot to get running shoes tied correctly. needed to tie them once they were put on.

get shoes ready for quick on.

Legs were hurting from those many climbs on the bike. Overall was able to stay under 9 min mile, would have liked to get closer to an 8 min mile. overall, run was hard due to bike course.

not much,

water and sitting on bench, than slow walk around transition


Lack of bike training on hills.


This was a CGI event. Voulenteers were great. Especially gentleman at bike transition area, very loud and encouraging to everyone.
Post race food could have been much better. Bread, cookies, red pizza, and bannans, water. Very organized, and great MC making sure everyone had their name and hometown called out, good job.