Giant Acorn International - TriathlonOlympic

Watch out for the shallow water about 100m into the swim, funny to watch from 2nd wave as first wave hit it, not so funny to go across it as it is all rocks.

I need to buy a sleeveless wetsuit for races like today when the water is just cold enough to want to wear a wetsuit. I hadn't swam other than races in 3 months, so I wasn't expecting much.

Bike mount is uphill, so a little tough after a long swim. It rained the night and morning before race so ground was soaked and I had shoes on the peddles so socks were soaked before starting the ride.

Nothing, I took my time knowing I wasn't going to be in any type of contention for a decent finish after a horrendous swim time.

Haven't been able to adjust from flat conditions in Coastal Carolina to VA. I didn't put in a ton of mileage leading up to the race but I rode nearly 200 miles in the 30 days leading up to the race and still couldn't come close to replicating similar distances in NC.

I honestly don't know, I put in some time training and trained on some severe hills and rolling incline/declines. 16mph avg for that short of a course is pretty sad.

Bike dismount is down severe hill, should have gotten out of shoes before start of decent, tough to do coasting downhill.

Nothing. Again, knowing that my time was terrible, I took my time in T2.

Good course, uphill to start each lap.

More brick training, took longer than usual to get my legs under me, which cost me some valuable time in what is normally my best leg of a race. Focused too much on just bike training.

Nothing. I was exhausted and sore.


Lack of swim training led to fatigue in every other part of the race. I just wasn't feeling the race from start to finish, very little inner drive once I got deeply behind from the swim.


I thought the race was very well done. This was my first race with this series and it didn't disappoint. Course was great, only complaint would be the rough conditions of the majority of the bike course, but that is very minor. Volunteers were awesome. If I was staying in this area for more than a few months this would be a race that I would come back to year after year.