• Sounds like some run training is in order (as with 95% of triathletes!)

    I did my only race of the season on Saturday a super sprint at dorney lake, no swim training and little bike time in the last 3 months definitely showed, started well in the swim but exited 32nd, a slow transition followed as I needed to put socks on and am frankly very out of practice but onto the bike and despite high heart rate, my legs were feeling pretty good and speed was great, 2nd fastest bike split and onto the run, coming off the bike I was in 5th spot and first place was 1km down the road and he’s a decent runner so no chance of catching him and barely able to see the others but having spent a lot of the last 3 months I was pretty confident to close the gap, initially at half marathon pace and into 4th and then when that wasn’t closing the gap down to third went full gas for the last km, official time 17:53, although the run course was a little short!

  • Sounds like some run training is in order (as with 95% of triathletes!)

    Training is for sadists.

    I did my first tri in literally a decade this year (London)- had meant to train, couldn't find time to get to the pool so hadn't swum properly since pre-covid, injured my knee in a XC 10k in May so had been not running very much either (fear of injury stopping cycling). But money had been paid and my next-door neighbour was doing it so they cajoled me into it.

    The general standard was clearly a bit poor as-mass start I came 3rd overall and across all times through the day would have been 28th.
    Everything was slow- the swim expectedly so, the run perhaps understandably so, but I was still a little upset (it was a little hectic), and the bike- well I had a mechanical and got caught behind an ambulance so that was very upsetting indeed.

    S:22
    T1:4
    B:59
    T2:2.5
    R:41
    Total: 2hr10.

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