Lets just say I exited the water at about 5:15 (a little slow), but there is a mother of a hill from the beach up to transition. I ran it all, but pretty slowly.

The swim was fine, albeit congested, particularly around the buoys. 250m hardly sorts the swimmers from the non swimmers.

Back myself more and swim harder/faster to get out of the pack.

I'm pretty happy with this, found my bike fine, ran with it fine, but did get a little blocked prior to mounting.

My mounting was slow and awkward. This needs work. Just got to throw myself on.

We had a tailwind heading out, I looked down and saw 42km/hr. You can imagine what coming back was like. I pushed, but within reason. I so wanted to average 30km/hr, but the headwind was just a little too strong for me.

The lack of bike training was pretty much the reason I didn't step up to the Sprint distance. I'm hoping to spend more time on the bike so I can race the longer distance

Again my dismount needs work and this would have been a touch faster had I not been blocked in the narrow chute to transition.

Reasonably happy with this pace. I was thinking it was going to be much slower. I was distracted by a errant shoe lace, it wasn't quite undone, but it was flapping about, so I did stop and tuck it in which worked only temporarily. While my HR was high I think there was more in the tank to push a little more.

Go harder.

Finished with just enough time to wish my friends competing in the Sprint distance well.

Happy enough with the race, a few areas like the dis/mount of the bike to work on and of course build to the longer distance.


There's always a talent issue, but confidence in my own ability to go harder, particularly over the short distance.