Gold Coast Triathlon - Luke Harrop Memorial - TriathlonSprint

Felt quite good. I didn't push myself too hard and managed to draft of a few guys. Got overtaken by a few of the fast people from the next wave, but they're freaks.

More threshold intensity training so I can go faster.

Had a 10k run from the water to my bike. Ok, it wasn't that far, but still about 250m. Still didn't feel confident getting into bike shoes on the bike, so I clomped out of transition. Apart from the overland trek from the water to the racks, the actual transition was good.

More practice on getting feet into shoes on the bike.

Went out on the bike a little too fast (about 35-40kph). Luckily it didn't cost me too much on the run. Lots of people were still on the course, even though I was one of the last waves to go. I was very happy with my cycle, maintained above my goal pace (31kph) for the whole time just about.

More high intensity training so I can go harder!

I need to get the whole multiple-things-at-once thing downpat. For me I do one thing at a time.

Nothing.

1st km: 5:10 - was happy with this pace and tried to maintain it. I was hurting a lot at the end.

Aside from more bricks to train running on tired legs, nothing.

Got some gatorade and water and banana. Went in the water and did some stretches.


Need more high intensity training.


Of the 3 tri's I've done (I did this last year as well), it was the best! Perhaps knowing what to expect (to the degree that you can) helped. I also trained a lot better this year, and it showed in my 4:30 improvement. I was just outside my goal of 1:20:00, which can partly be attributed to the epic T1 run, and partly to me not quite going hard enough. Overall very happy and look forward to my first Oly distance at Mooloolaba in 3 weeks.