Toronto Triathlon Festival - Olympic Course - TriathlonOlympic

Course was soooo gross. Just a lot of floating crap, hard to get around docks and boats. The water had some very cold spots making it very hard to breath. Some areas were very narrow and hard to sight. Sun in eyes on the way back so I just followed other swimmers. Even did some drafting. First time in a deep water start and was not as hard as I thought other than my goggles got foggy at the start so had to stop to clear them.

Was VERY dizzy getting out of the water, getting wetsuit off and putting on bike shoes. To get to the mount line there was a very big hill so waiting to the top to put on shoes.

try to relax more.

Very hard going out with the hills and wind. Great coming back. Got a 3 sec warning as I didn't slow down when the person passing me was passed.

Bike harder. More hill practice.

It was hard to run down the hill with the bike with bike shoes on so I went slow. Hard to rack the bike as the area was cramped and my bag was in the way. the hooks on the back of my seat didn't work on the rack either so I had to use the nose of the seat.

Rethink the way to rack my bike.

I felt great on the run. Just had to go to the bathroom and was very happy to see a port-a-john at a construction site.

Run faster!

walked, did some stretching and ate.


I don't think the pasta dinner agreed with me the night before and the lack of sleep didn't help.


I wish there were more port-a-johns near the transition areas or on the run course. There was too much debris in the water and pot holes on the bike course.