Jackson County Tri

For me personally the event was great.  Good, fun people to talk to, lots of cool expensive bikes to admire and be jealous of etc...

Everything started on time from what I can tell.  Originally I was scheduled wave 9 but they announced that AG 40-44 would go in wave 8 at 8:40 (Sprint).  They made the announcement many times and additionall posted wave starts in many places around the swim house and event tents etc.

Lots of people.  I think 800 or so total (approx. 430 in the sprint).

Some adjustments were required with the timing.  I think moving the wave start times caused a 5 minute adjustment in chip-timing.  My watch showed exactly 5 minutes slower than the chip timing result which was the time between waves.  Online results seem to be corrected, at least most of them.

I heard a lot of "noise" about course markings for the Oly distance.  A few people ran the wrong way, or didn't understand where the turnaround was, something like that.  The two or three guys I talked to admitted it was "their" mistake as opposed to the typical KLM bashing I've heard.

The sprint course was very straight forward, not much room for error on that course.

For me I think it was my best performance thus far in my 15 months of tri'ing.  I got to ask Chris Legh a couple of questions on Saturday.  I mentioned I was "clumsy" on the bike and he told me he would make sure and steer clear of me me on the course, good times.....