Hyde Park Triathlon..

Transition –  they went pretty smooth although I did lots of practise on these . Still room for improvement certainly on T1 ….

Bike not brilliant, need a lot of work on this (and new kickass carbon fibre bike) and my bike (rental) felt like it was fighting against me the whole time, weird , room for improvement here – 40km – 1:19:38

Run – a shocker, by lap 2 I wanted to pack it in(and it was a 5 lap course!), it was around lunchtime and hotter than hell and 1/2 the course was in bright sunshine I had to borrow Lucy’s Obama cap after the first lap. Really struggled here. Normally can do this distance in 45-50 minutes today 10km 1:06:53. In pieces, a real ,real struggle, legs felt like lead I think I failed to plan my nutrition and hydration properly as I didn’t take any gels on board so my body crashed  on the run….

So the moral of the story is if you’re a good cyclist and runner you can do some damage on these triathlon things…

So for my age group –  37th out of 40 !

But 9th out of 40 in the swim !

All those years underwater were good for something.

Overall placed 254 of 294 for the Olympic distance. The run really ruined me.

At the end I was in pieces, NOTHING like the marathon or half marathon, this really took it out of me , I couldn’t stand up, definitely a carb deficit going on….You live and learn !!