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Looking back, what would I have done differently?

The night before my first triathlon I didn’t sleep very well. My thoughts were on the next day, the enormity of the task looming frighteningly close.

Now that it is getting closer to the big day, we have been inundated with advice, rules and regulations about how to make the best of our first triathlon.

So now, in the proper gear and doing bricks as and when I feel like it, I could almost pass as a professional. Almost.

No nudity in transition. This is one of the rules of triathlon we learned this week.

There’s so much to learn when it comes to taking part in your first triathlon event. Lycra, trisuits, sneakers, transitions and more.

The first swimming session was particularly brutal. I managed one length of a 25 metre pool before stopping to get my breath back.