Here's the race organizer's website.
Here is the low down on the Olympic tri course in Naples at Sugden park: The start/finish line and transition area is nicer than most venues with good free parking and really nice bleachers for friends and family to hang out in comfort at the finish line. The transition area specifically is paved so no worries about mud or wet grass. For the swim, it’s a lake and pretty nice. Its an old, deep, rock quarry which obviously breaks into the aquifer making the water temp somewhat cool, especially when the surface gets churned up after the first wave. (certainly it is cooler than the Gulf!... but won’t be wetsuit legal, so get any brilliant… I mean, ‘buoyant’ ideas) The bike is obviously pancake flat, with exception of a couple of extremely small bridges in the ritzy neighborhoods, but it has a lot of turns, curves and cross streets, so it may be confusing (even to locals) if the organizers don’t have enough marshals to direct you… and it cuts across a few major highways… so be sure to have good breaks and watch for cars (this organization does not have many volunteers and cops stopping traffic like the non-profits do and they don’t have any closed roads… usually). Then, for the run, let’s call it the “economically diverse run”. It cuts through differing types of neighborhoods from rough to ritzy out and back, but you may find your biggest encouragement will come from the rough parts because the gated community is no doubt full of head scratchers who care less about a triathlon. In any case, it will be lonely out there until you reach the last quarter mile and finish to a cheering crowd in the grandstands.
Lastly, this organization usually lacks on post race yummies, so BYO food and drinks.
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