Last year the swim was a nightmare this year the conditions were so much better. you start off swimming looking into the sun so its really tricky to see the first buoy to round. I just put my head down and started swimming from the start I found a few feet to sit on and thought yep I'll just follow them till the first buoy. Unfortunately I picked the wrong feet she headed off to the right so I had to swim over her to get back on track and found another set of feet to draft off. Once I turned that first buoy I settled into my normal pace and swam a pretty good swim I think. One chick scratched my arm to pieces and it hurt in the salt water but it was pretty uneventful apart from that.

not let someone else lead me off course. its hard to sight directly into a rising sun but maybe I could practice that a bit

I got my wetsuit off pretty quickly, someone had racked their bike righto ver my gear so I had a bit of trouble getting my shoes out, was as quick as I could be.

I'll learn one day to get on the bike and put my shoes on but apart from that everything was as fast I could have been.

Ok I've put smooth road surface for the most part it was but there were a few rough areas.
I felt great on the bike unfortunately my bike computer wasn't working, I haven't quite got the new computer figured out its got a few features which I havne't worked out yet and i just couldn't get it to work. I didn't have any guidelines to how fast I was going.
I could definitely have gone faster I should have pushed it faster.
there was little undulating slopes. not really hills.
I really didn't corner too well, there were only two tight corners but I slowed right down as I'm not overly confident cornering on the new bike, its just a whole different centre of gravity. One one corner I got yelled out by a guy behind me. and I was totally in the right, rude old guy.

I did not drink the entire bike! ooops.

cornering practice, ride faster, not listen to old grumpy men yelling behind me donn' t let it put me off cornering!

I did a bit of dawdling in transition. I did it all and was going quickly but I was kinda day dreaming a little.

concentrate

I grabbed a drink before I headed out of transition. I remembered from last year I had to run to the end of transition before I could get out on the path. Headed out for the run. I don't know what it is about Mandurah but the run course just seems to come easier then most.
its slightly sheltered and runs along the canals and lovely houses in Mandurah I think I must get distracted looking at the scenery.
I'm never going to be a fast runner but I had a good run. managed to get a few sips of drinks in on the run

learn how to run faster

milled around chatting forgot to do any stretching at all. waited for the presentations, no spot prizes today.


lack of speed!


I really enjoyed this race its great racing for your club made it a really social event! would liek to go faster but I'm happy with this race as the first hit out for the Perth season. Bring on next weekend