XOSize Tri Series - Race 2
7:30am 4 December 2011
500m / 16km / 5km
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| Bib | Name | Division | Overall Place | Gender Place | Div Place | Time | Swim | Overall Pl | Gender Pl | Div Pl | T1 | Overall Pl | Gender Pl | Div Pl | Bike | Overall Pl | Gender Pl | Div Pl | T2 | Overall Pl | Gender Pl | Div Pl | Run | Overall Pl | Gender Pl | Div Pl |
| 373 | Wayne HEPENSTALL | M40-44 | 145. | 127. | 17. | 1:03:37.5 | 0:12:38.2 | 315. | 233. | 28. | 0:01:16.2 | 109. | 83. | 8. | 0:26:41.6 | 94. | 91. | 11. | 0:01:26.2 | 190. | 139. | 12. | 0:21:35.3 | 134. | 119. | 15. |
Pre race: bike: 8km (1 lap) warm-up on course, very strong head/cross wind coming back, had to get out of aero-bars to stay upright sometimes.
swim: 4 x 100m (out to 1st buoy and back x 2), water "cold", reported strong current to right, didn't notice it.
Swim: Not fun, got straight into groove until first buoy (warm-up really helped). First the second buoy (~200m) the roughness started to mess me around. At first turn caught a lot of people just floating there. 2nd to 3rd buoy approx 50m against current, about half-way started to tire, looked up, again people just floating there, I think they had failed to "make their way across". Swam hard to 3rd buoy, made turn thought it would get easier - nup. Really started to struggle in last 100m, had to conserve a bit to not wear myself out. Had no idea where I was in the wave, but had passed some swimmers from previous wave. 12:38 only 10 seconds slower than in previous race, not bad considering conditions.
Bike: I knew it was only 16km, many didn't. I also knew there was a strong tail/head wind. Caught 3 juniors (who had passed my on swim), and swapped position with them several times, before dropping them during 2nd lap. Fastest average bike speed ever 35.96km/hr, and highest bike % for a sprint or longer with 18.99% overall.
Run: 1 lap - OK, legs felt a little "hard" initially (maybe cold), used drafting well on return to avoid head-wind, but ran on (breathing) threshold most of the way. 21:35 only 3 seconds slower than previous race, and (garmin) distance was longer.
Race: Fastest ever Sprint - but not full bike distance.Post-race: won a spot prize - yah, but I had to wait in the cold to nearly end of presentations and was planning to do another ride - boo. Only got some anti-chafe cream - boo. But then was drawn out for second place major prize draw - yah. A voucher for a pair of "on-running.com" triathlon running shoes at XOSize. Still went and did 1 hour ride up and back on beach road.
