the day started with the sun shining and our entry gift was not Barvarian beer (as Lawr had hoped), but non alcoholic Barvarian beer! Nice beer glasses though. Back at the start the top men and women were gettting ready. It started to rain, but really rain. For the next hour it poured but thankfully we were in wetsuits walking to the start!
Lawr was first off and even though he took 7mins off his Annecy swim time, he was still paced by a guy doing breaststroke! On the technical cycle he had time to chat to a PE techer from NZ, (she kicked his butt in the swim). His run was steady, but hampered by a niggle in his calf. I was left for dead in the swimming, after 50m there were 5 of us swimming our heart out, but getting dropped by the rest. I found the last 300m very confusing as all the yellow bouys seemed to be floating around the river.. it was only as i chose one to head to that i realsied it was the yellow swim caps of the sprint triathletes who started after us i was following. It took a bit to get my bearings. The cycle was drying out so the cobbles were less of a worry and on the run I had tight hamstrings, didn't really run until 7km.
Anyway it was a river swim, multi lap course, well supported by the whole community and the after race food was almost as good as Crieff 10km. Our end times were only 10secs apart, which meant it was almost a perfect day :)
highs - race, post race beer, Lawrs vintage PB?!
lows - running trouble
note - the very expensive TT bikes were redundant on the technical course. All rounder bike much better.
Lawr was first off and even though he took 7mins off his Annecy swim time, he was still paced by a guy doing breaststroke! On the technical cycle he had time to chat to a PE techer from NZ, (she kicked his butt in the swim). His run was steady, but hampered by a niggle in his calf. I was left for dead in the swimming, after 50m there were 5 of us swimming our heart out, but getting dropped by the rest. I found the last 300m very confusing as all the yellow bouys seemed to be floating around the river.. it was only as i chose one to head to that i realsied it was the yellow swim caps of the sprint triathletes who started after us i was following. It took a bit to get my bearings. The cycle was drying out so the cobbles were less of a worry and on the run I had tight hamstrings, didn't really run until 7km.
Anyway it was a river swim, multi lap course, well supported by the whole community and the after race food was almost as good as Crieff 10km. Our end times were only 10secs apart, which meant it was almost a perfect day :)
highs - race, post race beer, Lawrs vintage PB?!
lows - running trouble
note - the very expensive TT bikes were redundant on the technical course. All rounder bike much better.
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