Barton Marina Triathlon 2014
June 15th 2014 500m swim, 18.5 km bike, 5k run My second open water triathlon! And what a weedy one too! I was very grateful that we had been let into the water to warm up as the weeds were a great shock. Well rooted and growing from the bed of the lake upwards they tickled my face, arms and ankles. I got well acquainted with some of them in the 5 minute warm up, enabling me to be aware of the potential of entanglement in the race, but was still surprised to find them there. Naive perhaps, but the water at Cliff Lakes so far had been weed-free, and from rowing I knew that it normally took until late August, early September for the weeds to get prohibitive. Anyway, weeds aside, I found the swim very challenging. My first experience of racing in a swim pack on unfamiliar water. I decided to take some advice I'd been given and wait a couple of seconds to let the initial pack swim off. However, there were so many people of varying abilities that this didn't really happen s...