The swim was last and I was tired and not an expierenced swimmer by any means. This was my first ever triathlon and I had just taken swim lessons 4 months earlier to learn to swim.

Practice more.

Because T1 was run/bike I didn't have to worry about having wet feet, etc. I could have changed my shoes faster and the biking shoes I had were not good for triathlons. My bike shoes were loose the entire bike ride because I did not get them fastened properly and did not want to stop and take the time to fix them.

Buy new bike shoes and practice transistions.

The bike section was pretty good...what I expected. Wish I had my shoes on better, probably could've shaved some time off my ride.

Practice drinking more in race conditions or buy an aero drink holder. Buy new shoes (which I did!).

Bike to swim transistion stunk. I didn't run well with my bike, but then we had to shed our shoes and run barefoot for a LONG way over a parking lot to the swimming pool. Stepped on a sharp rock early on and hurt the bottom of my heel.

The course should have been designed differently so the transistion area exited out closer to the pool. I shed my bike stuff and got ready for the swim ok. Need to practice running with bike.

Like swimming, I wasn't much of a runner. Before this tri, I had never run over a 5k or done a brick (stupid, I know ... now) and here I was adding a bike and swim on for good measure

Traqin...train....train. Actually my time was pretty much what I expected given my earlier 5k runs.

Just not in good enough shape and not expierenced with combining the events.


The race was great with the exception of the T2 transistion design. Very well organized and staffed. Disappointed the swim was only 1/8 of a mile when originally scheduled for a 1/4 mile, but on race day, glad it was shortened because I was tired.