Montclair Triathlon - TriathlonSprint

I think the swim is my weakest area. I think my endurance is there, I know my technique is horrible. I liked how they blew up a big flappy green man on the beach so you could sight where you wanted to end up.

Get some lessons on technique and do a proper warm up.

Running up the hill out of the transition area was tricky and I ended up spilling a lot of the gatorade out of my aerodrink bottle all over my bike and myself.

I had to slow down at times, due to people just coming onto the bike course, merging with people that were on their second or third loop.

Stay in aero position as much as possible.

Due to a lack of research/practice, I didn't have my shoes oriented the right way to get out of transition area.

Yeah, I got a little confused towards the end of the first loop. There was a sign that said something like "first loop, go left", "Second loop, go right". Well, I thought I was supposed to veer right since I was starting the second loop. Before I knew it, I was crossing the finish line. When I realized what I did, I had to run through the crowd and get back into the run. It probably added 30-45 seconds to my overall run.

Be more familiar with the course.

Ran up the darn hill again.


There was a lot of room for improvement on the swim. If I could exit the water with the faster group, I would have been with the faster bikers and it would have motivated me to stay up with them. Definitely a domino affect.


Nice to have a race local to me. I liked the fact that the roads were partially closed off, so it was one less thing to have to worry about. I would definitely do this again, as this is very friendly to athletes of all abilities.