This was my first 500m swim and the race goal was to complete the swim without encountering any difficulties. Stroke was 90% breaststoke and 10% freestyle.

Continue to work on the swim technique to switch to 90% freestyle and be more efficient through the water.

Easy transition as it wasn't crowded, found the bike easy and wetsuit came off easier than I had expected.

As I was still grinning from completing the swim I took the transition quite easy and good have been much faster.

Flat easy course, noticed moving from the try-a-tri to the Sprint less mountain bikes and people to draft. Very concious of drafting roadies that I was doing twice the amount of work they were to keep up with them. Was aware not to push to hard in the big rings otherwise would strain my knees for the run.

Buy a Road Bike !!!

Dropped off bike, no need for hat or sunglasses as it was neither warm or Sunny, had a Gu gel and some water.

Drop wetsuit into box during T1 so I wouldn't think about it going missing during the event and have to find it during T2 and verify it was my Black Orca suit.

Great run, good pace for me and enjoyed the run. Have seen a massive improvement over the last 4/5 weeks since the last race.

Nothing.

Stretched legs and enjoyed the supplied muffins and drinks.


As this was my first Sprint the goal was to complete the race and enjoy the experience (which I did) and subsequently wasn't as fast as possible. My Swimming technique is improving but I only started swimming in the last six weeks or so and the breastroke is not the most efficient stroke.

I think I have reached the limit of speed using my hardtail Mountain Bike averaging around 28-30ks an hour and that a Road bike would make some difference.

I trained a lot over the last 4 weeks since the previous race and that made today easier once I had my head sorted with the Swim.

Really enjoyed my first Sprint race and bring on the next one ;-)