lined up to the far left side of the swim start which is the shortest distance to the orange buoy turnaround. I was in line with a couple other very fast swimmers and drafted the entire swim leg. the turn was a bit of a washing machine as 100 men all crashed into the turn at the same time but I escaped, found my drafting partner and cruised into T1. This was my fastest open water swim ever. I though the course was short by my garmin clocked 508 yards and a couple other people also clocked 500+.

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Really struggled to get a hold of my string on the wetsuit which cause me to slow more than I had intended to. My heart rate was about max at 180 bpm. Dipped my feet into the bucket to get the pine straw off and was out of T1.

better luck with wetsuit doffing.

The bike was set to be fast but still don't have the best gearing for CT hills. The final corner is a sharp 90 to the right, my back wheel caught sand and I fishtailed hard, can't believe that I didn't go over but after regaining my composure got off the bike and into T2. I used castelli T1 stealth shirt on the bike under and wore it under the westuit during the swim. I took a 2nd roctance at mile 8.

harder hill work and watch out for the sand.

due to rocks and pine straw chose to not flying dismount, got to transition mat and got shoes and socks swapped, got t1 stealth off and hit the run.

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all out and turned a negative split.

maybe leave the AAA tri top in transition and just go with the AAA visor

cleaned up transitions, talked to a bunch of people (this was one of friendliest triathlons I have ever been apart of), jumped in the cold lake.


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This is one of the best race series that I have ever been apart of. The atmosphere was amazing and the turnout was huge for a local early season race. This is a must do race for a brand new triathlete to the seasoned triathlete.