Kapiti Women's Triathlon and Duathlon - TriathlonSprint

VERY large waves, The course marshalls changed the course from a 400m swim to a 100-200m wade and then run down the beach to the transition area. Wading through water like that was not what I had trained for and took way more energy than I was expecting.

I just needed to be fitter to cope with this sort of exertion. My next ri is in a pool, so the conditions wont matter as much :-)

Transition went really well, I was last in from the water and third to last out of trans. on the bike. It helped that I didn't have a wetsuit to take off (I have enought natural insulation) I had forgotten to untie my shoelaces, so when I came to put them on I had a quiet curse under my breath, but it didn't hold me up for too long.

UNTIE SHOELACES!

Bike was good. I kept up a good speed, passed two people. Had some gear issues (sometimes my gears stick) but not too bad. Quite a strong head wind going out, but coming back was a breeze. Can't wait to get my road bike! I had slicks put on my MTB, but it's a cheap bike and never goes as fast as I went on my prev. road bike. It was not fun being passed by my friend on her brand new bike! (I got over it though :-))

Kept up a good cadence and speed, had a few too many breathers, so just need to keep building up fitness

Transition went well, getting tired at this stage though, so didn't run with bike

Oh boy... I knew that I needed to work on my run but this was ridiculous! it took me the same time to run 4K as it did to do the other two stages. I was definatley under prepared. All I can do here is live and learn though. I managed to run about 3/4 of this distance (well, when I say run, I think that stumble is a more apt discription)The next tri I am doing has a 5Km run and the run comes first, so I'm going to put in some hours over the next month, I want to be able to do 5K in 30 min.

Train more

Very well run event, will definatley be doing it again next year :-)