This felt OK. Nice to be caught up in the atmosphere of runners starting together 'cos it's normally more spread out in a tri. Hill at the end was horrid but overall I felt OK.

La de da, same old story, despite working on speed all winter my run speed always lets me down. I could have worked some more trails but I only recently decided to do this race.

I couldn't buckle my helmet! In the end I had to take it off and look at it and realised I was holding the wrong part of the strap. Duh! Otherwise this felt smooth enough

I love the bike. I just remember saying to myself on the bike that I was now in my happy zone pedalling away. I passed a few people including a couple of girls and played hop scotch with a lady and man for second half of course

Nothing - I love the bike

Ok

get faster!

1 mile felt like 10! I just remember thinking how I was looking forward to being back on the bike. I walked up the steep hill towards end on purpose just to get my breath back.

Practice. I usually run faster off bike so am a bit disappointed with this leg

ok

I was happy to back on the bike. I probably could have pushed it more but after the mile run I was a bit worried about the next 2mile run coming up. Still, I did push it somewhat and was a little surprised to see the time nearly a minute slower than the earlier leg as I didn't feel that tired. Played leap frog with the same girl throughout the ride. I beat her into transition but she got me on the last run

ok

Yuk, what a horrid pace. I could feel my body working hard throughout this despite the ploddy pace. I walked that same hill again on purpose because I wanted to finish strong. I did manage to sprint to the finish line (benefit of having a downhill finish)

Get faster

Drank water and chatted to people


Not done a duathlon before.


Nicely organised