First Triathlon on Sunday

Well done Emmy!

Well done EB, glag to hear you enjoyed it and had a good Tri, congrats on beating your mates

Emmy, I'd just do two and see how you get on. As said above, if you move up to longer distances, you can do longer bricks. During IM training I do 3 x 25km bike 5km but I'm not suggesting you should do stuff like that - after all Chrissie Wellington's favourite workout is a fast 130km bike/30km run but that's not for ordinary mortals!

Hi, and well done Emmy. I break my own tri-virginity this Sunday coming, so I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it. It seems that none of my tri club will be there, dunno about Pirates.

Blisters - shame I am marshalling at Cotswold 113 as I would have come and cheered you on

Should I pop along to the Lakes later?

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Hi, and well done Emmy. I break my own tri-virginity this Sunday coming, so I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it. It seems that none of my tri club will be there, dunno about Pirates.

Good luck Blisters! 

Good luck Blisters too...

Well, that was a good dose of healthy exercise.
The transitions went like a dream, I finished the 400 swim wishing that it was longer. The bike leg wasn't a lonely as I'd expected, and had some time trial style racing. Ran like a duck though. Having said that, nobody ran past me, and I took 4 mins out of the guy I had been chasing on the bike.

The instant results machine said that I was 7th, but then again, most of the others hadn't started at that point, and they were the fast ones.

My next race is in 2 weeks time, with a longer swim.

well done blisters!

Finish position 171/270 all entrants, 117/202 men, 13th v50.

ie not quite last.

nowhere near last actually!

Well down Blisters! thats an absolutely cracking time! How did you find the transition between the bike and run?

I think you should rephrase it - near the front not the back!

T2 transition? You know full well what that's like. Having just given the bike a damn hard thrashing, despite trying to "spin out the legs". It was a barrel of laughs. Like my thighs had just been worked over with a baseball bat.

My base fitness is not back to where it once was, and the run was painful and slow. Kms felt like miles. I just ran to effort level with a JFDI mentality and an eye on the watch. The last km was actually the most enjoyable because it was steeply uphill and it was time to call on strength rather than leg speed.

Lol to the baseball bat analogy. I like that! Well done, great result.