What a fun race! Easy to get to, well organized, great support and fantastic volunteers, also lots of people cheering. I did this race 10+ years ago when it was a couple hundred riders. Now it's 1300+ and I was thinking it would be crowded. After the first couple miles, it wasn't bad at all. I did miss one turn. I think the volunteers and I both fell asleep. The guy drafting off me yelled left, I was thinking what, is there a car passing on the left, then the volunteers stopped chatting and yelled left but it was too late. It took a good 5 minutes to catch the guy drafting off me. Great workout going to LT to catch him.

I didn't eat any doughnuts which take 5 minutes off your time.

It was weird packing for a bike race. Way less gear than a tri which was nice. No transition area setup was nice. Not fretting about the swim was nice. Basically no pre-race funk or jitters.

Start closer to the front. I passed a ton of riders and was only passed by a few. I didn't find many people to draft off of, starting toward the front would have given me more options.

Road back out on the course to ride in with a friend then visited with friends. Kicked myself for not bringing a cooler with beer.


Not finding someone to draft off of. That was fine since just about all of my training is solo.


Really fun venue and great volunteers and fans. Very organized too.