Swim course was good. No waves and timed so that the channel current was very low (it can be bad here).
After the swim you have to run up a dirt trail to a bike path and then about 100 yds to transition. Bike path is open and was very croweded with spectators made it hard to get through them to tranistion.

Nothing except swim faster. One of my best swims ever.

Because of the run back to tranistion my feet were covered with sand and dirt. Took time to clean them off. Feet got stuck in wet suit. Leaving tranistion you have to carry bike and run through sand to get to road.

More practice removing wetsuit and getting going on bike. Also more practice at venue would have helped, I was not planning on running through sand with my bike.

This course was horrible and only got worse with the way it was managed. Only some of the turns were manned with volunteers so the direction (you have to know this course it was not marked well at all). There was no traffic control (I am amazed no one got hurt).
There was only one aid station and it was on the other side of the road with only one person there so if you wanted water you had to stop, get off your bike and fill your own water (glad I did not need any).
Also so others stuck at stop lights so if you did not time it right you were stuck for minutes.


Never ride this course again

Since course was open you had to fight through car traffic to get by the tranistion. Once you were close you had to cross the run course and if you were unlucky you got stuck waiting on runners.
After getting off the bike you had to run through sand to get into transition.

Wish I had known about this course it killed my plan to come out of shoes and run into tranition.

The start of the run course is confusing coming out of transition on to the bike path that is crowded with spectators. then you cross the road with the bikes coming in then out a service road to the beach. Lots of soft sand running, creek crossing, then just short of the turn around you have to go adventure racing and climb over wet rocks and run on single track paths. so you get to do this twice. This killed my time because I walked it and did not want to take a chance on slipping and breaking a leg.
There are only 2 aide stations with one person getting water was not easy. Race said that they would have Gatorade but they didn't have that they had another type of sports drink.

Practice a lot more soft sand running and rock climbing.

There was no warm down area, and the after race food was horrible. water, green bannas, oranges.


I know that this was a first time event but it was very poorly put on and the bike and run course were dangerous to the altheletes. Not enough volunteers or aide stations. No post race food or activities.
If things don't change drastically by next year I would not recommend doing this race.