Gatorade Race 1 St Kilda - TriathlonSprint

While warming up we noticed that the sky blue caps had started to assemble. It was a mad dash to the start line not helping the HR siuation which got to 180 at the thought of missing the wave start! Thankfully settling to 130 and then the gun went off.

What to say. I belive I'm a stronger swimmer than this performance. I should have beaten Catherine but I saw her and later Sam pass me. I was breathing every two - possibly because panic set in and I swallowed a fair bit of the filty bay. I felt as though I was getting no where. NO WHERE!! There was no powering through the water like last season, though I did catch a few people on the way in.

Train! I just have to be in the pool at every opportunity. 2 new sessions have been created to cater for sprint/Oly distance for beginners and this is where I should be week in, week out. More bay swims on the cards too.

This is pretty slow. I should be able to take a minute off this time over the season. Nothing major, probably just a slow run out of the water. I was happy with the way I got on my bike.

I can't pin point anything at this stage.

I beat Cath & Sam out of transition, but they caught me quickly and left me in their dust! My goal time was 45mins and I got this comfortably. I hope by the end of the season to be averaging over 30km/hour. I didn't want to kill myself on the bike & have nothing left on the run.

I need to spend time on the bike & really haven't done a lot of training for this at all.

I didn't hold the tongue of my left shoe properly so I wasted time trying to pull it up again. I opened my right shoe fully and had no troubles there! Put on my hat as I ran out of transition.

Make use of the elastics laces I'd put in my shoes!!

Sadly I think this might be a PB for 5km!! Imagine what I could do if I hadn't swam or biked!! I'm stoked with this run. I thought a goal time of 32min would be challenging, but 31.32, phew!!

I set my sights on a chic who wa a fairway in front of me but looked to be running her pace. I finally caught her and we played cat & mouse. I decided that I didn't want to waste my energy so I let her go. Just after the 2.5km mark I saw a girl walking. I told her to run with me, she did after declaring that she hated running. So do I, so do I. Rich & Christine caught up with us while on the way for their ride, so they rode with us dishing out encouragment. Rich said I looked really composed. The legs felt great, I'd say the limiting factor was my HR. It averaged 178 throughout. They left us and we pushed harder. I passed the girl I played cat & mouse with earlier and was determined to keep distance between us. Sprinted up the home straight and thought I was going to be ill before I crossed the finish line, thankfully I did so after and got a 'love your work' from a random dude. I've never lost my breakfast after a race, but I felt much better after I'd done so!!

I can't complain.Just need to get out there and run more.

Mmm gatorade. Picked up my race pack, had a chat with Ruth & Catherine & headed home.


As usual, talent. I need to train and do so consistently. I hope to see some improvements at the Elwood race - same distance.


Wow I was pretty tired after the race. Definitely severely dehydrated. Ate a million pancakes for lunch, had a snooze & off to have some beer with Rich & Christine. WILL make it to swim training tomorrow morning, after an early night to bed me thinks!