Started off in good rhythm on outside and sited by tracking movement of group to my right. As I neared the buoy and moved towards pack I ran into lots of contact that through off my breathing. After rounding buoy tried to get back into good rhythm and struggled due to poor sighting. Veered off course to left and then overcompensated and hit rope on right.

I think my start was fine, but would have started move towards buoy later as I got closer to keep the good rhythm. On turn back I should have found a better source to help with sighting.

I struggled a little bit with my Garmin. Apparently I need to work with it more to figure out how to start it properly in multi sport. It tracked time and distance, but that was it. I fiddled with it a bit in T1, but then gave up. My suit stuck and bottom too getting off.

Do a couple of practice starts with Garmin to make sure it was operating accurately for race mode,

I missed the turn around and it cost me 2.45 miles or so and somewhere between 5-7 minutes of time. My bike ranking assumes correct distance at pace i was at.

Not sure anything. There was no volunteer at turn and so that is why I missed it. I guess if I had memorized the bike map before race I might have had a better idea of where it was.

I was still pretty heated about missing the turn and so was preoccupied a bit with that during T2, plus my Oakley lens came out of frames when I removed the helmet and so grabbed the lenses and tried to put those back together as I started the run.

Have a second pair of Oakleys in my transition bucket in case lenses come out of frame when taking off helmet.

I had to walk up a few hills. I was a bit depressed over bike issue and think my run was slower because felt like I was out of race.

Do more nature runs where there are hills to prep for this course

I didn't do normal post race stretching. I had to leave to do a bike tour, so packed up everything, grabbed some waters and an apple and after a few comments to race director about bike turn issue, headed out.


Missing turn on bike and not getting Garmin working accurately.


Not having a volunteer and bike turn around was a big miss by the race. They apologized afterwards and will correct that for next year. Otherwise well organized race. It is the toughest run course I have encountered in triathlons.