This was my 3rd time doing this race. My time was the same as last year, but position wise , i was in the top 40 rather than top 20 last year! so i guess its a combination of me getting worse and the field getting better!
The swim looked a bit shorter this year, and i went out pretty hard. We had to run the first 50m or so due to low tide, and that didn't help. 200m into the swim I blew up and actually had to switch to breaststroke for a few minutes(ridiculous!!). I guess i just really went out too hard. Foggy goggles AGAIN!! there just seems to be no way around it!
I started at the front of the swim start and to the right – out of the way! That paid off because in spite of all he trouble i had i guess i finished the swim relatively OK but did not feel very good at all! had to walk back to the beach!!
Transition was ok. standard 3 step procedure. everything taped to the bike. Helmet , belt and go.
The bike course was ok…this being a drafting event you have to be really good and hold probably at least a 38 kmh pace alone to stay out of the groups. I stuck with a group and finished the bike segment in a group as well.
Being out of shape , the run felt very hard, but in fact was shorter and probably easier than normal. It was a new course and required some running on the beach. Probably not that hard, but the lack of training, due to my foot injury(and lazyness among other things) had me suffering. I lost 7 positions on the run, where i normally gain positions.
I got chicked on the run once. I hate that.
Now to let my foot heal and get back into regular training.
