Narrow swim so pretty much a bottleneck all the way. I'm getting a lot more comfortable in the water but still not good enough to do freestyle all the way. I did a mixture of normal freestyle, waterpolo freestyle and breaststroke. Therefore no problems with sighting or navigation :p It didn't really feel like racing, just surviving really.

Practice more

Swim was moved so that added a 300m run to our T1. Still happy with the time. No wetsuit, but also no tri shoes so running with bike shoes was not the best thing.

Buy tri shoes!

I went out pretty hard, especially since the first part of the loop was with a tailwind. I passed a lot of people because I was slow in the swim of course. I would just focus on people in front of me and on the turns. The headwind sections were tough but I think that's where I gained the most overall. At a certain point I was locking onto this guy on a full carbon tt bike and disc wheel n everything, I just had to pass him, and at the start of the second lap finally I did. He came back on my tail though as we neared the end of the lap and I could see he was drafting off of me so I swirved to the left to let him know I was having none of that. I think he backed off after that or maybe he was suffering too much. I don't know and I don't care, I was glad that he didn't pass me on the run because I would have given him a piece of my mind (if I would've been able to talk).

I think I could have gone out a little harder even, although I was redlining it pretty bad already. I was suffering on the run anyway so then might as well pull out all the stops.

Got out of my shoes a bit too quickly, so had to ride my bike with feet on top of shoes a bit too long, and didnt really do the flying dismount but rather the, stop, get off, and continue running, dismount.

Pay more attention in the first lap to get an idea on where to get my feet out of shoes. Practice dismount. Still, I was happy with 50 seconds.

I started out quite fast and it felt really bad. I calmed down a bit and I think it took me about a mile or so to get to a comfortable pace, only the pace was not really as fast as I would have wanted it to be. I was able to pick off a few other runners, and was passed by the eventual winner and the guy who finished just in front of me. He was a good goal to hold onto as he passed me with about 2km to go.

Practice more short distance intensive stuff (without getting injured).

Drank some sports stuff n orange parts. Talked to some of the other competitors and cheered some people I knew that still had to finish.


Lack of training of the swim especially.


It was my first triathlon so I'm happy I placed on the top quarter. I was secretly hoping for top 20 overall but my swim just was not competitive enough. Lots of room for improvement in all areas but probably will focus on the swim and run (and biking).