Gatorade Triathlon Series 2010/11 SuperSprint
Race 5 - Elwood Sunday, 6 March 2011 website results
Bay swim, flat cycle course, flat run (500m/ 20km/ 5km)
A beautiful Melbourne summer day, and even better that I got a PB for Sprint distance triathlon. Admittedly it was 12 second PB but still a PB none the less, 1:10:33. Late start for this race for me, not only was the Mini set at 7:15 (gotta be after sunrise), but the Sprint was pushed back to 8:45am (bigger gap than usual, I guess because of the size of the field), and then I was in the second last wave, at 53 minutes. Luckily the wind nor heat did not pick up too much before I finished.
Swim: Felt OK, water was cold in warm-up, swam hard, but could not get into much of a rhythm, only managing bi-lateral breathing occasionally. Positive was I was in the middle of the pack rather than drifting behind the group as usual. Finished up with 11:44, similar to previous Gatorade races at Elwood, includes some 500m running into transitions. Pretty much flat water.
T1: 1:39 - I seem to be getting slower in transitions. Then again 1:18 was good enough for age group first last week, 21 seconds slower and I was 22nd.
Bike: 34:28 a new 20km bike PB, 32nd in Category, and 260 overall is near top 20%. Rode hard pretty much all the way, couldn't really tell which way the wind was, was consistently around 37-40km/h ending with a 34.8km/h average. The "new" TT bike did it again.
T2: 1:53 - half way down the field :( Wasted a little time checking out my foot when putting my runners on. While wheeling the bike in, the guy in front of me stopped dead, I went the pass on the right, the guy behind me had the same idea and somehow my 2nd little toe got clipped by his front spokes. Owh.
Run: 20:49 - a new 5km run in a Tri PB (sort of). I had done 19:32 in the first race of the season, but the distance was short (Garmin had 4.7km). Again felt great in the run (even with sore toe), with 4:00 and 4:02 for the first 2km. Again my best leg 229/1194 overall and 16/92 in category.
My Results: Online Garmin: Swim T1 Bike T2 Run
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