The laps went by much faster than I had aniticpated and I certainly never expected to see people doing breast stroke!

Too much adrenalin made me awkward and I was breathing hard before I'd even left transition area! Heart pounding! My bike pants kept getting caught on my saddle as I tried to get on. On the other hand I never registered feeling cold and wet.

I am hoping a trisuit will make a difference to the smoothness of my transition. Learn to calm down and not let the adrenalin freak me out too early!

This route is daunting! I had seen it described as 'sporting' which is putting it very mildly! It has a huge amount of uphill, and I was too scared of the very steep and windy downhill to go as fast as I'd like. After falling off on a training cycle the week before my confidence on a bike is low.

Spend more time training and building confidence.

Just glad to be off the bike in one piece!!!

I was not expecting to run on grass and found it harder than running on roads/paths. At first my legs were so wooden but they finally loosened up. I did get an stitch and had to walk some of the way - but looking back I didn't drink anywhere near enough during the race.

More brick training sessions to deal with wobbly legs! Work on bringing down that 5km time!

Just walked around a bit and did some leg stretches.


a) Not enough training
b) Lack of confidence on the bike
c) First ever tri - so not enough control over my excitment, thus burnt through adrenalin and energy too fast


This was my first Tri so it's hard to rate it just yet. Will reserve judgement until I have done more!