Finishline #1 | Finishline #2 |Swim #1 |Swim #2 |Bike #1 |Bike #2 |

Finishline #2 |Swim ||Bike |Run |

Start and Swim |Bike | Run |

Just some of the bikes assembled in the transition area

The driving rain slacked off but the roads were slick as I approached kilometre 41 of the bike leg, the start of the hills that dotted the area of Phuket’s Supalai Resort and the Ao Kung Mangrove Conservation Project. I had the right timing shifting

Think about this: you're at a training camp abroad, getting some sun as you fine-tune your physique and your technique, and you're feeling great. Then it happens - you, your bike and maybe even someone else crash at high speed coming off a mountain

Think about this: you're at a training camp abroad, getting some sun as you fine-tune your physique and your technique, and you're feeling great. Then it happens - you, your bike and maybe even someone else crash at high speed coming off a

; she finished 16 minutes ahead, in 6:52:11. In the men's race, Chris Goodfellow had already overtaken Will Newbery on the bike and took victory in 5:34:55, with Newbery finishing 14 minutes later.The slick organisation of the event, which featured split

from the marshals but no prizes for places - the laudable idea is that everyone's a winner. Before the event, the club even ran a training day to guide newcomers through the rules, practise transitions, try the bike course, work through the kit

for wondering if they'd turned up at the same venue; in 2010 the rain came down in torrents, but this year's event was blessed with sunshine.The perfect conditions made for a trouble-free swim in the lake. The 43K undulating bike leg didn't present too many