Location: Centred around an Airport, which makes it pretty convenient.

Swim: Between an island and mainland, so this mean rarely cancelled. Water is clean. A better than average swim course.

Bike: The person that designs this bike course needs to think more carefully about safety! Just because it looks good on a T-Shirt is not the reason to have more than 20 180 degree turns, particularly when some of those 180s are at the bottom of some pretty steep hills. They spend hours making everyone do race safey briefings and then design a course where every year people crash and hurt themselves. A rethink of the bike course is needed as there is some pretty good terrain that could be used. This is the worse bike course for a 70.3. If it's wet it would be super dangerous.

Run: A very hilly run, but a long downhill section into town. Not too bad, but 20k is still along way! A better than average run.

I did it twice as was told the bike course was going to be improved, but alas they only removed 1 hairpin bend!