Friday night was spent heading to Cooloongatta for a family celebration = late night. Saturday morning I ate several weetbix before leaving for Kawana at 5.00am. It was a nice change for a late registration (daylight). I was competing in the aquathon –2.5x1x2.5. I wasn’t expecting anything big from this event as they are not my strongest legs and just waited to see
It was quite an early start leaving at 3:50am, and especially after a late night curtesy of Mitchell, happy 18th bro.
The lead up; the last couple of months contained lots of swimming, a bit of cycling, and very little running, the perfect lead up going into a running race.
Being my local race and home ground, I did not have to leave until 5:30am, giving me a sleep in and a casual mood. I was racing in my second Opens race, and wanted to improve on my last race. I felt normal going into the race, nothing different to any other day and walked down the pontoon to race briefing. I dived in and secured a clear starting spot in the swim, and as the gun went off I sprinted as fast as I could. It was a short swim, allowing me to come out mid-way through the field and run through transition gaining time.
Firstly I would like to say a huge thank you to CONOSCO for their generous support and funding, making this next stage of my racing possible. Now on with the report. Well I was pretty keen, I got to use my new Zero Athletic tri bag,but also nervous to do my first open race.
Well the day started a bit later than usual, leaving home at 5:30 am. It was an hour’s drive to Murrenbong and transition/rego closed at 7:30. I was given slightly different gear whilst registering, instead of sticking your number around the seat post, it was placed on the handlebars, and there were also no helmet stickers. My race began at 8:33 and I began my warm up around 8am, as I was doing the long course enduro.
With cross country in Melbourne last Saturday and Monday, Met East track athletics Thursday and Friday at QEII, Triathlon Queensland Moreton Bay back to back on Saturday and Nissan State Triathlon Series on Sunday at Redcliffe I am exhausted.
Who knew that counting was such an important part of triathlon? With 20 laps for a 1km swim TT, 12 and a half laps for a 5km run TT and 10 laps for a cycle race.
Well I was ecstatic to be back racing. Although I have been doing cross country and track, nothing quite compares to the atmosphere and the challenge that a multisport event brings. For me a duathlon is the ideal event, it combines my two best legs and gets rid of swimming.
Melbourne did not turn out quite as I had hoped.