Gatorade Race 3 St Kilda - TriathlonSprint

I felt pretty good in the water. It was a little congested initially but after the second marker buoy I had my own space. I drafted for a little while and decided that I was being lazy and picked up the pace. Back into no mans land. I'm always swimming by myself! I was very happy with my navigation today even though coming in the sun was right in the eyes. I feel as though I swam without the extra 50m I usually swim. :)

I'm pretty happy with this swim. What a difference solid training makes. I'm a convert!!

A little slow running from the water, but all went smoothly.

Again very happy with this.

There was lots of drafting out there today as well as stupid riding. Plenty of crashes.
It's odd because I didn't feel that good on the bike, as salty as my mouth was, I didn't feel like drinking and as a result I think I had 200mL of Gatorade. I had planned to have a Gu, but I didn't feel like that either and look I post my best bike time! As usual I tried to average above 30km/hr, into the wind I managed and with the tail wind got up to 38km/hr.

I probably could have pushed harder with the tail wind, for the first time I got into the big chain ring, but I was afraid that my legs would have nothing left for the run.

I felt as though I took this slowly. The run with the bike was longer than I had anticipated. I also got a little confused as to where the run exit was, even though I had checked it out when I was setting up.

Believe in myself that I do know the course!

I felt pretty good considering I'd got into the big chain ring on the bike and had next to nothing to drink. One million competitors passed me and I passed one other. Poor guy. Still the conditions were next to perfect for me, a slight headwind running out, cloudy on the coolish side temp wise and I actually felt alright running.

Just keep running, just keep running.

Gatorade. Best drink something.


Considering I felt remarkably underdone coming into this race (I'll blame the eat/drink fest that was Xmas and NYE) I couldn't be happier with my result. I thaink I was 2 mins faster than the last race that was 500/20/5. Which is a strong indicator that I was ill that day.