The swimming part was really great. The water was really clean and transparent. I maintained a very steady and relaxed pace.

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Took my time. Had some trouble to remove the wetsuit but haven't lost so much time after all. I went off the transition area running with the bike and with my cycling shoes in my hands because there was a 50m difficult climb which I couldn't do on the bike. Heard that many of the athletes did the same.

My first two laps were done in a time around 1 hour but my last lap was really bad, especially the last hill. Til the end of the second lap I remember to left behind 5 athletes and in the last hill 3 of them left me behind again. The cycling times include both transition times (around 6mins total)

Again I took my time putting my shoes on and grabbing an energetic gel and a bottle of water

It took me at least 1Km to adapt my legs to the run, but after that I maintained a steady pace til the end. Left behind a few athletes and never stopped til the end.

The difficultie of the cycling segment. I'm pretty sure that with a flat cycling course I would have done way below 6 hours


It was my first long distance triathlon and I was able to smile at the finish line. I really feel good about it. This was also the national championship of long distance triathlon so I'm proud to be classified in the 38th position :)
I forgot to put sun lotion and I have some parts of my body a bit red... I never thought this could happen, especially because only for some brief moments the sun showed up and because I never suffered of it.. but there's a first time for everything I guess. This will count as a lesson learned.
The pics show the cycling profile from the first transition area til the end of the first lap, an image of the dam where the swimming took place and another where it's possible to see the road that was the beginning of the cycling segment