Aberfeldy Middle Distance Triathlon - Triathlon1/2 Ironman

Loved the swim.
The water was a bit cold but not as bad as last week at Portobello. Started quite far back to avoid any stramash at the start. Just enjoyed the whole swim, had plenty of room most of the time and no problems rounding any of the bouys. Most of the second lap I reckon I was at the head of a pack but too far away from the guys in front to do any drafting.
A couple of guys passed me on the homeward straight, so upped the pace and tried to keep up with them. Arrived at the water exit ramp on the LHS where the ground was a mass of boulders and loose rocks, I discovered afterwards that the RHS had been cleared.

The swim was great, the only thing to change would be exit 5 yards to the right.

Ran into transition and removed my wetsuit, shook hands with Alasdair and wished him good luck on the bike. I then spotted the guy that would be cycling in my other team (the number on his leg was a give away) so I introduced myself and tried to imprint his shirt patern to memory.

T1 and T2 were in different locations so after watching all the bikes leave T1 I drove to Aberfeldy with Z & C. We wandered around Aberfeldy a bit and generally all got anxious waiting to head off.
Stood in a kind of pen affair waiting for my cyclist to arrive. About 15 mins later than predicted he came in (I recognised his shirt still). Shook his hand and headed off.

Made so many mistakes. Generally should have sat down and relaxed much more.

The run was good and bad. It was quite a lonely run as I was running all by myself barring the people that overtook me. As so many Stirling tri people were doing the event though for the first three miles there was a steady stream of people passing doing the last bit of their cycle to shout out greatings to. After this you could then watch out for the fast guys finishing there run and then once round the turn point check out whose where.
Pretty much ran out of steam on the last three miles, the last mile is quite up hill which was a killer.

I should have done some more longer runs prior to this race.

Loads of people to chat to and see how they had got on.