State Interclub Championships Mandurah - TriathlonSprint

Best swim I have every had (best of 3 so far) just "let" the pack go and then swam at my own pace, not swimming at my own pace was my biggest mistake in the last tri.

I was actualy enjoying the swim for the first 300m, then we hit the deep water and there was a bit of swell, this threw me off a bit, I lost my rythem, drank a few mouthfuls and felt prety ordinary. I did Brest stroke for 50m or so just to get my coughing out of the way then back to freestyle to the last turn. Ended up doing brest stroke a fir way after that turn as I found it tough swimming into the wind/chop. before I new it my feet were on sand, I stood up and ran to transition, I wasn't last, but I think there would only have been a handful of people behind me.

All in all I enjoyed this swim, and while not fast, and I was almost last, it gave me some confidence that I can at least swim that far, 6 months ago I could make the end of a 25m pool so this was a good achievement for me.

Have to do more open water swimming to get used to the variable conditions.

Fairly good transition not much to compare it to...swim time of 22m was the time for the swim and T1, I looked at my watch as I got my bike off the rack.

Rough time was 33 minutes.

Struggled to enjoy the bike today, being so far behind after the swim was a bit disheartning, and there was a fair bit of wind on the way out, just cruised the whole course realy, could have put in a bit more but my head wasn't in bike mode today? usualy my best leg so that was a problem.

Drank the right amount, water and powerade, seemed to be at just the right times to, was settled before I started running.

Prefer longer rides, I find I can catch more people, but next time I just have to keep my head.

Took 2 strides away from my bike and thought DOH! still have my helmet on...

Got a bit lost in transition on the way out, wasted a bit of time.

Pay more attention to the exit route

Enjoyed the run, legs felt fantastic off the bike and considering I did a 23km run on wednesday I felt great for it. Got nice pace going and cought plent of people on the run, I think only 2 came back and passed me, and while I could have run with them, i was trying very hard just to run at my pace.

Sure that run through the week did me good, i felt strong on the run.

No hr rate monitor in this race at all, I have to find a good way of getting it to work in an actual tri, i think i could have pushed harder on the run but would like to have seen what my h-rate was.

some streching at the race, but when I got home I took the youngest daughter for a 30min walk.


Only my head stopped me from going faster today, both in the swim and on the bike, the body was fine.


would have rated it 5, but the run exit transition was a bit of a shambles for the males, people being told they were going the wrong way etc etc, it just needed to be better marked.