Felt ok even though I ended up near the back overall. Really didn't get any rhythm going the whole way. Kind of a blur.

Tough to tell because the swim was so short. I'll work more on the open water swimmimg before my next triathlon and time myself during training.

Need to work on cornering and climbing. I've done a few sprint triathlons. I feel this was probably the hilliest bike course of them all.

Almost got blown off the bike coming down that first hill before you leave the park. That wind off the water was strong!

Traing on hills and cornering. Since this is an early season race, I didn't have much time to traing outside. I'll use this race to focus on what I need to for later races. Hopefully next race I'll do better with the extra training.

Just racked my bike. Had to remember to use both the front and back slots for the wheel. For some reason I tried to balance the bike in just one slot. Duh! My bad.

Not too much. I think MAX is the only company that uses that wooden slot racking system as opposed to the metal rods at the other ones. I'm not sure my schedule will allow me to do anymore of their races this year.

First hill out of transition was brutal. Once I was past that I felt ok.

Hard to say. Felt steady all the way after the first hill. It was windy though on that last stretch on the footbridge.

Not much. Had to leave to make it to brunch for Mother's Day!

Thought I would have more time, but because of the delayed start, I had to rush right out. Long walk back to my car - almost got blown off the footbridge again walking back!


It must be tough to run these races. You can't please everyone. My only suggestion is they could have made a decision earlier on the shortened swim.

I read something about a delay waiting for the EMT truck to arrive, so maybe that was it, in addition to the buoys being blown off course. In any event, no one seemed to know what was going on until we were informed the swim was being shortened about 45 minutes after the scheduled start.