Canberra 70.3 was my first experience with longer distance triathlon this past weekend and with a couple of days to reflect on my performance I am itching to get into my next one. I had heard very mixed reviews about the Canberra course prior to signing up and with late course changes the talk was all about how fast the bike course would now be. The bike course had to be altered due to road works which meant that the 18km loop (5 times) would inevitably become congested at some point (and was 2km short by my computer).