Gatorade Triathlon Series: Race 4 - Sandringham - TriathlonOlympic

This was the WORST swim of my life - I really mean that. The swell was quite strong and there was just a roller-coaster + washing machine effect. I wanted to quit about half way. I couldn't get a clear line to swim - kept getting swum over or across or I kept running into people. I hated this swim with a passion. To top it all off, my swim cap pinged off about 100m before the shore/finish. So I had to swim with cap in hand which was just ineffective.

Not swim? Start out wide away from everyone else and stay there!

They moved the timing mat for the end of the swim and start of transition. It was pretty much at the very end of the swim, so T1 time includes the run up the infamous Sandy hill climb. Hence my long long transition.

Nothing. It was fine.

The forecast said "clearing showers"... well, let's just say OUCH. Stinging rain at the southern end of the course that was practically torrential. Ow ow ow ow ow!! But I had a good ride overall. Actually, my time is awesome - fastest 40k ever for me - esp. given the conditions.

Absolutely nothing.

All good.

Nothing.

Much much better than last year. I walked twice (at the top of that hill climb x 2). I didn't tip any water over my head this time because it gave me blisters on my feet last year.

Not much, really. I felt a strange combination of over and undertrained going into this. Over-trained when it comes to overall training time and yet undertrained in the run leg. Only run 2 10km since Shepp (Nov).

Not much. Should have done more.


It was TTOM - day 1 - and that was ugly.


SuperSprint seemed very disorganised this time. Start times ran late by 15min. The bag compound line was enormous (because they are implementing a new system). There was no banana in the show bag which I thought was really poor - given that we'd done an OD. The Athena presentation only included first place because 2nd and 3rd hadn't crossed the finish line by the time they printed the results (very poor). So, while I was happy about the fact that I took 3mins off my overall time, rode my quickest 40k and sliced my run time, I came away from the event rather disappointed. And don't worry, I've let SuperSprint know all of this via email feedback.