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Who kicked off their season today?
jonE
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With over 17 races around the country today,April 18th,it is one of the busiest,so who kicked off their Triathlon season today and what went right or wrong?
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Next up is Grendon, then Blehiem, will have to up the ante by then!
Everything went smoothly, yeah right
Bike compueter died the night before
Racked my bike and started setting up in the wrong slot, 155 instead of 255 (wondered why there were no bikes, they were all out on the bike leg!)
Two slow swimmer in my lane choose to ignore feet taps which was extreme;y annoying, tried to overtake and received a wack in the side of the head, I thought I hgad bad technique! O and forgot the number of lengths
Times...
9.00/3.02/41.31/1.28/27.44 - 1.22.48
Initial thoughts, swim should be faster and of course a faster bike! carbon and red I belive is the order of the day.
2 hours I reckon but results not up yet. Happy with that for first race of the season.
750m swim/ 20k bike/ 5k run.
Should be round the 1hr 30mark and had it not been for severe stomach cramps I would've sooo much quicker. I was on the bike which was working beautifully and had a good averagespeed of approx 20mph and I was overtaking people who had got out the pool quicker than me. Then around 10k I got really severe stomach cramps and at one point I was just crawling along on the bike.
Run - wasn't much better, I think my wife has a pic of me bent double with the pain
I struggled through the run and 5k in 28mins.....
They say you learn more on a bad and I did - my nutrition needs work.
I did take some postives, it was the best I had swum in a long time and had it not been for the arse who, despite me tapping his feet to move over twice, didn't move and I got stuck behind him as overtaking in the lane was banned.
I was also climbing hills pretty quick and overtaking reasonably well and my bike handling in the wet was good. ( It was lashing it down with rain where the tri was).
I was dejected yesterday but time to move and get fired back into training as I've got Horwich Tri coming up.
Training for it was not so good as I'd had to take 3 weeks off in Jan/Feb from an inflamed tendon in my foot, so I never did a run longer than 15 miles before the race. Exactly on pace through the half way in 1:49:20. Then the through first 22 miles went like clockwork, ticking off 8:20/mile like a metronome which is what I'm most pleased with looking at this race. Finished just 5 minutes over my goal time in 3:44:19. Got a bit of a sun burn and got some great food in afterwards as well. Good result!
I was in the estimated 6:45 swim wave and came out of the water first. Woohoo. It all went downhill after that, with a fumbled show change, an awkward cleat and a rubbish run.
Overall, I got what I deserved for my poor training in the last month or so. Great race, though, and a good day out.
Full race report over on forum.BCTTT.com , of course.
On the plus side, I did my fastest ever run. Somehow I was about 90 seconds quicker after having already swum and biked than I am when running fresh!
well done
The entry fee was a touch steep,for a sprint race and a t shirt,but it didn't deter almost 600 others from racing.Well organised,just needed the marshalls to show some interest instead of using their friggin phones,
One marshal did go beyond the call of duty with his traffic control/calming measures to get the cyclists through a junction without stopping.So a big thankyou to him.
Woodhall spa in three weeks.See what a flat course brings,ha ha.
Oooh, that went great, I did it in 1:28 which was 35 minutes faster than last year, even though it was a slightly shorter course I'm still dead pleased ! Stinking weather though, and a terrible bike from me. I have now realised that just cos there's less hills, doesn't mean it's any easier !!! Good swim tho, and improving run... Nice mug too
I hope everyone else who did it had a great time !