The water was super shallow for about 50m and then there was a drop off into deep water, so there was a fair bit of running before we could actually swim. I ran in, started to swim when I could and tried to find some feet to draft off. For some reason I felt a bit panicky on the way out which normally never happens to me. I felt that everyone was far ahead of me and that I was all alone in the deep blue sea where I couldn't see the bottom. Then I realised that there were still people around me and that the next wave would soon be coming up behind and I calmed down and started to think more positive thoughts.

There was a girl ahead of me that swam breastroke the whole way, and I couldn't catch her! I used her legs to navigate, I thought she'd probably have a fair idea where she was going!! :)

Towards the end of the swim the wave behind us caught up, it was males 40-49 I think, anyway they were swimming pretty fast and I hoped no one would swim over me. They didn't :)

I did the best I could! I don't think it was my best performance, but I swam as fast as I could. So be it :)

Usual transition. Usual time delays due to need to put on socks :)

Nothing.

Two laps of a mostly flat, out & back course with a little bit of wind. Stayed in aero the whole time and tried to get my nutrition in. I had a Gu followed by some water, then a while later I started in the Gatorade. I tried to keep at 30kmhr but managed an average speed of 28.5kmhr in the end. Very incident-free cycle course of there today, I didn't see the officials need to tell anyone off.

Official time includes T1 & T2.

Get faster! :)

Usual transition. All good.

Not much.

I still can't believe I ran that fast!!! I ran all the way without stopping, not counting 2 very brief water station stops. I actually felt quite good during the first 3k of this run and almost found myself enjoying it, then the last 2k were just hard and I wanted to get it over and done with :)

Run even faster.

Ran through the finishing chute and was really surprised that my gorgeous husband had some down to support me after all! The surf wasn't all that good it turns out :) Had an apple and some water, they were serving that new Carboshotz drink that totally doesn't agree with me, I had one sip and threw the rest out. Milled around and chatted with friends, some Wellbeings crew and my coach. I wanted to stay back for presentations & prizes but Sef was grumpy because by that stage it was 10.30am and he hadn't eaten anything yet. Silly boy!!! :) So we went home.


No fast twitch muscle fibres??? ;) LOL


I have mixed feelings. On one hand I am much fitter with every season, this is my fourth long course race and I finish strong. I now consistently run all the way and don't seriously consider walking at all. So all this is good. But I am still so slow. I am still always coming in close to the bottom. I don't know what it is, 'cos I train a lot. I think I am probably just not very talented when it comes to speed. I need to focus more on my achievements and not correlate my lack of speed with not working hard enough. I do enjoy racing and I enjoyed today. I am very very pleased with my run performance and my cycle was good too. The swim could have been better but it wasn't bad really. I am just going to keep training :)