I started wide left. Maybe 30 feet off the shortest line to the first buoy which is a right hand turn. There was one other swimmer out there and I figured I'd fall in behind him and draft. After a dozen strokes I realized I was a much faster swimmer than he and I passed him. As I rounded the first buoy I realized there were very few from my wave ahead of me and I had a good lead on the next swimmer behind me. I swam in hard and didn't stand up until it was too shallow to pull myself along. I exited the water and ran up to transition while unzipping the wetsuit.

Probably need to start right on the front line at this race in the future to avoid having to go around many slower swimmers.

The run up to transition was good. I had a little trouble locating my zipper pull but it didn't slow me down while I ran.
I did step over near the edge of transition and Becky sprayed me with sunblock aster I was out of the wetsuit.

This transition was about as fast as I can reasonably go with what I'm doing so I'm happy with it.

This bike ride was so fun! I had a little trouble getting my right shoe to clip onto the pedal. Once I had it clipped I was going hard. At 2 miles my heart rate was up and my legs were feeling the burn a bit. I kept thinking to myself "if you don't slow down your run is going to suffer" but I just couldn't bring myself to slow down. The bike is just so fun to ride. I did spin a little easier as I approached T2 to prepare for the run.

Ride more. Lots more!

Again I know my transitions could be a lot faster but I'm okay with the amount of time I take

maybe switch the laces on my run shoes to yanks so I don't have to tie them

This run was hard, but good. I felt like I was pushing hard and I felt at times that I was nearing my limit. I made the mistake of trying to drink a bit of water while on the run from the aide station right outside of transition and I choked on some of it. The cough and throat soreness after didn't help. I did walk the aide station at about .75 mile to go to get some water.

drink a little more on the bike and skip the water on the run. or at least only grab water at one aide station

Grabbed some water right away while walking around. Then headed over to the food tent and got some fruit and a cookie. More walking and chatting with my wife and our daughters


I'm not sure I could have done much better than I did. I am very pleased with the results


TBF does a great job putting on these races. I think they get better at it each year. Very relaxed atmosphere, low key but still plenty of post race activity. Great race anouncer. With lots of competitors hanging around and often cheering as others finish. This is a fantastic race for someone's first tri and probably 30% to 50% of competitors were doing their first at this event.

I finished this race 6th in age group. They award down to 5th so I missed my first podium by 40 seconds. Exciting and disappointing at the same time.