Was planning on going relatively hard on the swim, however I had my goggles knocked off in the first 20 meters of the swim so I had to readjust them and then I got stuck behind some slower swimmers. Decided to just draft off of these guys and conserve my energy, plan worked fairly well until we rounded the 2nd buoy to head back to the beach. All of a sudden the sun was right in our eyes and we were all over the course. I probably added an extra 100 meters to my swim by verring too far out wide. Oh well, I should have been sighting more often instead of relying on the others to do so.

Sight myself, also not get my goggles knocked off, I am confident that if I had stayed with the front tier I could have ,gone under 23 mins.

Still am not comfortable with starting with the bike shoes on the bike, probably would be useful for saving time in these shorter races though.

Learn the bike shoes trick!!!

My goal here was to push the bike hard, and then see what happens on the run. So I started by taking the first 2-3km's relatively easy to warm up my legs and then I started to push. The recent amount of faster stuff I have been doing on the bike seems to be paying off as I was for once passing people on the bike and moving through the field a bit. I also got passed, but I was keeping track in my head of how many people I passed vs how many passed me, and I passed 2 more than I got passed by, so all in all pretty good. Hit the turnaround and was still feeling pretty sweet, had a gel anyway just in case I forgot later, and kept downning water. Came into T2 pumped as this was one of my best race rides ever.

Not much, I think I could have pushed harder and I may not have met my goal of going as hard as I could on the bike, but all in all I was pretty pleased with how it went.

Pretty good transition, I have mastered getting out iof my shoes on my bike, but man do I need elastic laces for my shoes!!! Would save so much time, at least 15 secs.

BUY ELASTIC LACES!!! This has been a continuing theme this year for me. Time to go do it.

I started off really well, felt like I had a ton of energy and my turnover was very good(usually if I am in trouble my turnover is slow). Passed a handful of people right away and felt strong, hit the first aid station, grabbed a water to pour on my head and a gatorade to drink, man, I am so used to drinking dilute gatorade that whoever had made this batch is was like drinking syrop!!! At least it gave me energy!!! Kept going, kipped the gatorade at the next aid staion as I did not want it as sweet as it had been mixed, through 5km and felt pretty good and was right on track for where I wanted to be. Hit the 6km mark and it was like I hit a wall, my foot speed slowed, energy just seemed to drain out of me. Felt terrible, luckily, another aid staion was just ahead, asked for gatorade, grabbed the cup handed to me and it was... water!!! Oh well, volunteers were great, everyone makes mistakes, back to trying to keep my pace going, but I was slowing down big time, no doubt about it, I started to get passed by some of the people behind me, not too worried, my goal time was 2:30 and it was still in sight, struggled through the last couple km's, saw the finish line ahead, looked at my watch... Oh crap, I might not make it in my time, busted it to the finish line, and... missed my time by 1 second!!! I knew I should have bought those elastic laces!!!!

I am not sure, maybe carry something with me, an extra gel for energy, I am not sure. I wasn't thrilled with my run time, but it was part of my plan that I was ready to live with for pushing the bike hard, and I didn't blow up which was my worst case scenarion so that was OK. Time to do more brick training I think!!!

Went and stood in the lake with my Mom who had come to watch, then grabbed some food, saw the results, went home for lunch and my afternoon nap!!!!


Poor decision making while swimming, and lack of brick training for the run.


Pretty good race, apparently this is the longest running triathlon in Canada which is pretty cool. Good stuff, will probably do this race next year as well.