The swim was declared as wetsuit legal but there is no way it was. Water temperature was at least 27C.

The course was two laps with a short run between. There was a ramp for exit but you had to just jump off a pier to get back in.

I found the swim to be very civilised and I passed people who started 4 waves ahead. I was able to stick with other swimmers so navigating wasn't much of an issue and that was good because I managed to get sunblock on my goggles so I couldn't see anything. We also had the sun in our faces for half the swim.

Overall it was a slow swim with the quickest time being 51m. My time of 1h 4m was atrocious for me and shows my severe lack of fitness going into this event.

I need to train more.

My T1 was six minutes faster than in my first Ironman but still very slow. There was a long run to transition and a very long run to the bike and then another long run to get to the mount line though.

I simply need to take less time.

A brilliant bike course partly spoilt by some very poor roads. In addition to the rough the wind was strong and my average speed suffered as a result. My time was 1h 2m slower than at my first Ironman but Busselton is a flat and relatively easy course.

I need to train more.

Five minutes faster than my Busselton T2 but still far too slow.

As wtih T1, I simply need to get better at transitions.

My run was roughly 1h 40m faster than at Busselton but it had nothing to do with training although I did actually do 30Km prior to the event whereas I did no run training for my first.

The improvement is almost solely due to not getting foot sized blisters halfway through.

I need to train more.

An almost complete lack of training. While I was able to finish 15 minutes under the shorter than normal cut off (16 hours) with a 38 minute PB without training it is not a strategy I would recommend.