This was my first Triathlon and also my first ever swim in a 50m pool. Registration was pretty slick and the transition area was good.
The swim, however, was very chaotic and not great for a novice. We had to wait outside in the cold for an hour (for 2917 maybe the queue could be inside?) and the swim order was all over the place. There were very fast swimmers mixed in with complete novices so not great for either! Overtaking was allowed so at times I was being overtaken whilst someone was swimming towards me and another swimmer was trying to overtake them! All in all I survived the swim but it could have been much better organised.
Bike route was good and mostly pretty fast and flat. The run was all off road and much of it was over rutted fields. As it had been very dry these fields were pretty hard so the rutts were a bit of an obstacle and not great on the ankles - I would have preferred the run to have been on better trails or even pavements.
The event was pretty big and apart from the swim well organised. Hopefully for 2017 they will iron out some of the issues.