In the water for about 3 minutes before my start (last wave), I was glad I opted for the suit. It was not that warm after all.

Good swim, focus on technique, nice and easy. 1:58/100 (goal tempo 2:08 so very happy with that)

100m run to my bike. Had problems finding my zip so had to slow down, probably lost few seconds there.
Once at my rack, everything went well, smooth removal of suit, perfect jump on the bike and into my cycling shoes already clipped.

5th time overall, 1st in my category

Keep practicing before a race

A fun course, lots of small hills and small descents.

Goals was to average 30k/h and I pretty much nailed that. Happy.

Another sub part T2 after last week’s but the idiot on the other side of my rack had put his bike in the middle of it (he’d already did that before the race but I had moved it to his side) and I had to slide it out of the way to make room for mine. Lots of swearing.

Also, no sense of urgency putting my shoes on, I can do better..

Plan was to keep around 5:30/km, which I managed to do, pleased with that too, especially as there was some tricky parts in the forest where I slowed down a lot in fear of stumbling or sprain an ankle

Was able to push a little everytime I noticed I was slowing down. The finish line was in the stadium so very fast finish

Nothing on this race but last year I ran at 5:15 minutes/km or better (later in the season). I’d really like to go back to this.

As we started in waves, 5 minutes apart, I had no idea how I had placed until I checked the live results and saw that I had won. Icing on the cake :)

They waited for the last participant to cross the finish line to have the medal ceremony, which I thought was great, even if it meant waiting around for over an hour.

Won a hotel night in a local luxury hotel and my name (wrongly spellt) on the “cup” (a really nice glass vase). Whomever wins 3 times gets to keep it. Challenge accepted!



Really well organised small village race. One of the best I’ve done.