Swim actually went well. I indicated good for overall, as it was good for me. Lake was calm, which helped.

Warm up swimming. Did not do that for some reason. I did not want to be walking around too long in wetsuit as it was fairly humid. Should have warmed up without it.

Had trouble getting into the pedals. I had shoes on, instead of having them in the pedals. Getting clipped in was a little comical and cost me about 5-10 seconds getting up to speed. Also, getting wetsuit down to ankles went fine, but always sort of a struggle at that point.

Practice getting into pedals more. It is harder after coming out of the swim, because if you are even slightly dizzy from swim, it makes a difference getting into the pedals.
I think I was happy with T1 overall as I cut 34 seconds off from last year. In 2015, I could not get the wetsuit off ankles, even with suit juice applied beforehand.

I could have pushed more on bike but wanted to save some for run. In 2015, I went hard on bike, and bonked hard on run.

Train more on the bike to eliminate running out of gas on run.

T2 usually goes well for me, since I am not fighting the wetsuit.

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I have still not found the magic formula to run off the bike. I feel I need to put more time in on bike. Normal run pace for a 5K is 8:40. Pace for this race was 9:44. I practice Bricks too.

Continue to practice more on bike, longer rides.

Just walked around for about 15 minutes, hydrated, ate some food.


The run, but I feel connected to training on the bike. Also, and I feel this is important, I did not sleep well at all the night before!


This is a well run race. I can't say it is the "best", as there are other well run races too. But, I think they do a real good job running this event! It is a Sprint triathlon, but there are some "nuances" to it that really test you. As mentioned, the hill coming out of T1 and T2 really just messes with you. There is no other way to put it. Also, they had a lot of porta potties! This is appreciated by a lot of people!!