Swim
Comments: I havwn't really been training for this, so it was a bit funny, I went out pretty hard with the girls but they kept pulling away from me, everytime I saw some legs to catch they were much too fast. So before long I was by myself and thinking a lot. "Oh! look i'm doing a tri again, this isn't so bad" Pretty chill, but I had to keep pushing because I couldn't see anyone behind me and I didn't know how I was going. So I just concentrated on swimming hard and straight. Came out of the water a bit woozy, but run into transistion was easy. Came into T1 and Kev and Jaquie's bikes were still racked, so I wasnt last, I was just by myself. What would you do differently?: Maybe train? Transition 1
Comments: Struggles to get clipped in, but it was fine, I got away cleanly. Shoes and socks on no probs. I opted to use socks cause I thought that the comfort would outweigh the time spent to put them on, it's not as though I was out to win I think my Bike time includes T1 and T2 Bike
Comments: Was beautiful. I got into my big ring about 700m into it and stayed there. Passing people was my only challenge, and it was easy. I just flew by so many people, focussed on breathing and how I was feeling, just kept pushing. This was a really comfortable race, I think if I had had a speedo on my bike I might have had more of an idea of how fast I was going, but I'm fine without it. Only one person passed me, it was great! I even passed Kevin. Transition 2
Comments: No Speed laces so I tied them. Should have double knotted. I grabbed a gel on my way out from my bag, I thought I needed it after such a push on the bike. I regret this a lot. What would you do differently?: Double Knotted. Run
Comments: As usual my running times are really bad. Boo. would really like to get this monkey off my back, but I just cant. Though, 26 minutes isn't too bad really. So the gel I took in transition created a cramp in the top of my stomach and the cramp cascaded down into my guts. So effectively I had two really hard cramps in my stomach. It hurt, a lot. Running on it was so tough and so incredibly painful. Every bounce was a shooting pain through my stomach, and people noticed. People saw my face and looked worried for me. Got lots of encouragement though. When I had returned from the bike there was only 2 bikes back at transition so I knew I was going to get run down by a few girls so I really wanted to keep the pace up and I have really been working on my running. I thought that I could pound this out but was in way too much pain. Tough 5km, I slugged it out though and kept with it. I had NO sprint at the end. Zero, absolutely nothing to finish with, which is no problem, sometimes it's good to know you left it all out there. What would you do differently?: Not take that gel, drink more on the bike so I don't cramp up. Tie a double knot as I had to stop for my laces twice!! Post race
Warm down: Was way too hot as I don't think my body had processed water since the bike. I felt quite sick and stayed near the recovery station to drink as much as I could. Felt a bit sick and a bit dizzy. yeah nice. I'm really happy with this race. Coming back to tris after being away for so long was a bit nerve racking and I definitely didn't think, after looking at the field that I would have been 5th in my age group. A big win for me I thinks. What limited your ability to perform faster: Not training for the swim and bike. And massive cramps, Event comments: I would recommend this race to anyone. The flat course, easy set up for the course and the venue makes for a natural tri site. Excellent viewing for family with seats and shade. Would do a tri here again next week if I could. It really couldn't get any flatter. Last updated: 2011-03-13 12:00 AM
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Australia
TRI NSW
31F / -1C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 21/126
Age Group = 20-29
Age Group Rank = 5/26
Helped Kevin and Jaquie set up their transitions zone and waited around for our start, we walked down to the swim start with about 20 minutes to go. IT was an all girls race, so it was really fun and relaxed.