Much more crowded than Clearwater. Time trial start, 2 swimmers every 3 seconds. Crowd quickly gets mixed up and water is always busy. Constantly passing and getting passed.

No wetsuit. Many people had them but some did not.

Once again, a few minutes into the swim, I thought "oh boy, I can't do this." Then a minute or so later I found my rhythm and was just fine.

Need to find speed in swimming. Could be form and conditioning, or afraid to go to fast and fail.

More strength focus in workouts, including paddles and kicking. Work on form drills. Several minutes of improvement available in the swim.

Once again, did well in transitions overall. 101 of 540 overall.

Decent location in transition, which was assigned by the race. Grouped with my age group. Put on socks and shoes in transition and ran with bike.

The bike rack was starting to fall down.

Figure out how to use bands to hold shoes onto bike and start that way.

Rode much more aggressively than at Clearwater. Attacked the turns when I could, and made a lot of passes on those. Busy course.

Drank one full water and almost a full Powerade. Ate two gels.

Fastest ride ever, 20.65mph.

More training for more speed.

Decent again. 145 of 535 overall.

Had to deal with collapsing bike rack again.

Wasn't getting too warm yet. Some cloud cover. Sunny section was Cedar Ave. bridge (twice).

Kept an excellent pace, first four miles within 4 seconds of each other. Ran a negative split.

Two waters right away. Enter the celebration area, which was very good. Had a beer, two veggie wraps, two banana. Had a canned cold tea.

Stayed standing and walking around for about an hour.


Second overall triathlon, with my first one being just two weeks before this one. Very happy with results - swam faster, biked faster, and ran faster.

Overall training experience and speed in swim and bike is my limitation, and area for improvement in 2020.


Well run larger race. Packet pickup the day before was easy and had a good info session. Race started on time, and my age group started about 2 minutes before the predicted time. Plenty of volunteers.

Swim course is good, covers most of the lake that is relatively protected. Bike course has lots of potholes to avoid - this is the most needed improvement. Run course is good, mostly paved trail, and flat. The lap interchange is confusing for Sprint vs. Olympic.

Good race medal, poor race shirt (black cotton). Good bike security procedures.

Plan to do this race again in 2020.