Swim was long, 2500+ from everyone I talked too, I had 2520 on my watch. I opted to not wear a wetsuit with the high water temps, glad I did from a potential overheating aspect, lost a lot of speed.

Maybe wear a sleeveless wetsuit?

Long uphill run to bike, clean transition took a little more time but really wasn't too bad getting stuff in and out of bag.

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A bit tougher than expected but mostly due to the high winds. I lost a lot of speed in the last stretch riding over the bricks near the stockyards, they were brutal!

Push a little harder on a couple of the uphill sections and when riding into the wind.

Fairly easy transition with a short run to hand off bike to volunteers and a short run indoors to a "changing" room where gear bags were easy to find.

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Started out really good then it got hot, for me. I couldn't pour enough water and ice on me and was continuously battling the heat. I walked through most any shady spot I could find and stopped at an aid station under a bridge for a couple of minutes to try and cool off.

Run with AC? Try and get more acclimated, which is tough to do when you leave 50-60 degree temps for 80+ degrees.

Walked around a little, skipped the post race pb&j, chips and orange for a couple bottles of water, an egg/bacon sandwich and coffee at Starbucks.


The heat during the run.


Overall quite a good race, I would recommend it to anyone interested in doing a half or full but not wanting to do a branded race. I hope they can keep it going as it was a really good first effort!