Started really fast, and after the usual chaos at the start, I was able to find my space and it went pretty well. No issues breathing.
Wore my short swimrun suit for the first time in a race. The water was too hot to wear the full length one.

A good T1, no issues removing the wetsuit even though the zip is at the front. I had practiced of course and developped a good technique.

Faster than last year and about the same as previous years

A fun course, lots of hills, up and down. Pushed downhill and took it easy when some hills got too steep and the momentum from the up was not enough. I didn’t care about losing a few seconds on the bike, I wanted to keep some for the run
About 30 seconds slower than last year.

A good T2, perfectly executed.

Very happy with the run. The conservative goal was to stay under 5.30m/km (8:52/m) but it felt great averaging 5:14 and 5:21 on the first 2 km and I even had some juice left to run the last one in under 5 minutes.

“only” 31 seconds slower than last year, which is quite a lot for such a short run but the way my run has been going this year, this is really good. This was my 2nd faster run on this course, better than 2018.

Collapsed on the grass, took a while to get my breath back, felt a little nauseous. I really pushed to the limit this time, really pleased with myself.

Briefly disappointed to have missed the podium when I looked at the results because I’d only seen 2 girls in front of me on the run. I guess I was so focused on my run that missed the other two.

It’s fun to be on the podium (did it 3 times out of 4 at this venue) but as I said before, I’d rather have a good race like today and miss out than have a bad race and win because none of the fast ones turned up.

The first 3 ones where much younger than me (36,(!) 15 and 9 years respectively). Even number 4 was much younger so really no regrets.




Lovely village race getting bigger.