This is the first pool swim I have ever done and they are really different. I underestimated my swim pace on the sign in sheet and said 27 mins so I was caught in behind about four people who were slower than me for the longest time. I think I could have easily swum a 24 mins swim today. Oh well, at least I got in some good drafting.

Seed myself better, although I honestly thought I would be between 26-27 mins.

Transition was long as I had to put on several layers due to the adverse conditions outside. It was raining pretty hard and a little cold and windy so I made sure to get on some tights and long sleeve jersey and jacket. this included a 300 meter run to bike transition from the changing tent.

Probably go faster although I wanted to be comfortable on the bike so I was reasonably content with how it went.

I had a great ride for me, I really felt strong the whole way and only got passed by one competitor on the bike. All in all I was very happy with this.

Probably push a little harder in the first lap and drink and eat more!!!

Just left on my jacket and warm clothing for the run, but took a minute or so to throw on my shoes and grab some gloves from my bag.

leave the gloves and ditch the jacket.

The run was tough due to my lack of run training because of my IT band problem, when I first started the run course I couldn't feel my feet or lower legs as they were so wet and cold, it was pretty tough, but I finally regained the feeling around the 3km mark. As I approached the 5km I started feeling extremely tired and realised I had not had anything to eat on the bike and I had only had half a bottle of gatorade. So I grabbed a powerbar out of my jacket, ate that, grabbed some powerade from an aid staion and downed that and then I felt good to go, but I had walked for about a minute and that was enough to frustrate me. I was still only passed by 2 people on the run, so that wasn't bad, but I only passed 2-3 people as well, so not that great as this is usually my strength and I wanted to go sub 45 on the run.

Make sure to get in some food and drink on the bike, it didn't hurt me until 5km into the run, but that was enough to do it.

grabbed some oranges, went back into the rec center and jumped in a warm shower, man did that feel good.


Being sick and lack of sleep, plus lack of good solid run training.


This is the first year I have done this race and despite the poor weather conditions it was excellent. I have to say the volunteers were great, being out there despite the crappy weather and cheering us on. Fantastic stuff.