Great course for a swim for beginners and veterans. the beach gives the opprotunity to stand up at any time. Floating guards or kayaks to help manage the course would make things a little better, for safety and sighting.

More prerace hydration, seems as though I had a touch of calf cramping during warmups, didnt return until later but still seemed a little off. warmup was longest and felt the best in any race so far.

I usually rubberband my shoes upright and in place to run jump and go. Bands broke in set-up so I had to go shoes on, helmet on, run with bike in shoes through transition, hop and go.

Pack more rubber bands

I was a little short on fluids-it was getting hotter and I was deailng with some cramps. I had 1 40oz reality bikes bottle with HEED. I also noticed on the way back that it gets REALLY congested by the barn hill. People were walking their bikes up some hills. I hope no-one was hurt. Walk on the right, ride in the middle and pass on the left. If you SEE a hill get to the easist gear sooner than later.

Hydrate more in transition. Seems about time to upgrade wheels or to an aero helmet. Push harder, but with the cramping I tried want to go easier, so overall good. Maybe gel at some point?

Ok here we get a little interesting with the Good/Bad. I dismounted perfect, shoes were on because my big feet/shoes flip and drag locking the wheels so I have to run with them on-unclipped. ran to my transition and had a grandfather/grandmother and 2grandkids roaming through transition-and of course down my row. I had to be friendly rude and ask to move. Shoes on race belt on BIG DRINK and made it out just fine.

have a water bottle ready in transiton, the cups of water as you exit transition just dont give you enough-after you spill it all as you run by.

Running the parking lot sucks, then the 180degree switchback after that onto grass for 100feet sucks. no water on the course sucks. My legs felt like goo-as usual, and I did run slower than my last race. Im blaming it all on my hydration.
THE GUY IN THE GREEN SHIRT THAT WS CHEERING PEOPLE ON WITH TIME AND HOW CLOSE PEOPLE WERE IN THE RACE WAS AWESOME. I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS A VOLUNTTER OR SPECTATOR-BUT THANK YOU. NEXT YEAR BE MEANER TO ME, I WANTED TO CATCH THE #3 GUY!

again with the hydration, and sprinted till I puked or fell to catch 3rd place. I was 4th by 12 seconds-and I chased him (brian) for 2.5 miles.

drink, drink,drink. jogged to transition to get camera-wife was part of the my first tri. jogged to run course, stretched and talked with as many people as possible while waiting on her.


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checked in the night before-no expo, no answers to questions regarding start waves. 5 volunteers. race started late, lack of volunteers led i think to no water on the run, little to no marshalls on the bike or run. no race day expo. Some company could make a fortune selling pre race equipment-um its a My FIRST tri-alot of people have nothing, my wife would have bout a tri bag the night before for sure, instead she used a sling bag she got free from another expo. race day you could sell-um rubber bads-tubes for race day flats, swim caps since this race didnt use them, i got asked if i had any extra bar tape-CRAP you could make a fortune selling I'm now a triathlete shirts! I didnt even see the race sponsors there-other than the mobile caffeine truck. Pst food and drink was good, volunteers cutting fruit and helping with water was good. Waiting 3 hours to announce winners-bad. Awarding overall place and age group place-bad. from what I heard about last year-MUCH BETTER-I actually will do this race next year-good luck everyone!