Hey, what's up folks, it's Ben Greenfield, it's Sunday evening and I got to tell you

I'm a little bit wrecked.

I'm here with my buddy John, what's up John, John's for Vancouver, I came up from Spokane

for the weekend and we checked out the Iron Man Canada course.

Pretty much the whole thing did the entire bike ride yesterday full loop of the run course

Ben got lost today so he set an attack on a little surprise extra for the run and of

course, spent some time in the beautiful lake up here and I want to give you some takeaways,

some practical takeaways if you're going to be competing in Iron Man Canada outwisler.

So here are my thoughts on this course, let's start right off the bat with the swim.

This swim is very flat, don't expect a lot of chop but do expect some sun gleaming off

the face of the water in the morning.

I would bring some of your shaded goggles if it's not going to be an overcast race morning

and you never know.

So I'd bring those goggles a little bit of a glare reducing in fact to them, there

are a bunch of companies out there like Blue 70 for example that make a goggle like that.

So I'd stuff those in the bag, I'd bring another extra pair of clear goggles in case it's

overcast.

For example, this morning we swam and it was a little bit overcast and of course those

glare reduction goggles tend to reduce visibility if there is no glare.

So a couple of goggle choices there and aside from that the swim is super straight forward.

It is a two loop swim so be ready for a little bit of jostling on that second loop but

for the most part just be prepared for a beautiful straight forward swim.

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