Nissan-BRW Corporate Triathlon Series - Race 1 Melbourne (Elwood)
7:30am 4 March 2012
Mini/Sprint 800m (Beach run)/ 10km / 4km
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Garmin Connect details: Run1 T1 Bike T2 Run2
This was my best team result 98th (from 1637), best personal time (39:52) although the swim was "short" and highest personal position 64th for the 1st team member, for this event.
My forth Melbourne Corporate Triathlon and first time, as the 1st team member, only ever last previously.
| Overall Rank | Cat Rank | Bib | Team Name | Industry | Overall Time | Category | Team Member 1 | Run | Ride | Run | Team Member 1 Total Time | Team Member 2 | Run | Ride | Run | Team Member 2 Total Time | Team Member 3 | Run | Ride | Run | Team Member 3 Time |
| 95. | 79. | 1301 | Infosys Triers team 2 | IT & Telecommunications | 2:13:29.2 | Corporate Male | Wayne Hepenstall | 03:29 | 20:34 | 15:49 | 39:52 | Mark Mathews | 05:10 | 21:41 | 18:55 | 45:46 | Brenton Staggard | 05:02 | 24:03 | 18:43 | 47:49 |
This was my best team result 98th (from 1637), best personal time (39:52) although the swim was "short" and highest personal position 64th for the 1st team member, for this event. "Swim": Replaced by a 800m beach run, due to water pollution issues, after rain in the prior 24
hours.
Bike: 1 x 10km lap - the usual Elwood Tri bike course along Beach Road to St Kilda.
Run: 1 x 4km lap - Out along path standard Elwood Tri run course towards St Kilda. Annoying little loop near the the little footbridge over the creek. Ran strong but couldn't quite maintain sub 4:00 pace for all of the 4 kms.
After a warm-up, both on the road and beach, lined up a couple of minutes before my wave start. Squeezed my way through the pack to the start line. Gun goes off, I take a step, land a bit awkwardly and the sand ins softer than I though, and feel light I have torn my quad muscle. I taken another step, and it feels like I have torn the other quad also! I hobble walk jog a bit and the entire wave, gets ahead of me by some 20-30 metres. Can I tear both muscles? Can I finish today? What about the ironman? I still have 3 weeks!!
I keep going and the pain subsides a bit, I "warm-up" a bit, and start to catch some of the wave by "the turn", and in a short distance we hit the hard ground, I was feeling OK now and hit my stride I pass the entire wave on the lead-in to T1. 03:29 for 800m with about 500m on sand - not bad :)
Bike: 1 x 10km lap - the usual Elwood Tri bike course along Beach Road to St Kilda.
After getting moving on the bike, as I am getting my feet in my shoes , a girl (in serious tri gear) passes me and says "just keep peddling"; I must have looked like a newbie losing speed. She gives me a target, and I chase hard, and pass her about the half way mark. We pass each other (without drafting) several times, as we pass just about everyone else on the course; only one other guy passes us. My quads still feel a bit tight, but I push it. Actual ride time of 16:35 (of 20:34 including T1 + T2) is a10km PB, and my fastest ever average speed in any race at 36.18 km/hr (or 39.80km/h considering the bike course was actually about 11km). That girl just beats me out of T2, but then I fly past on the...
Run: 1 x 4km lap - Out along path standard Elwood Tri run course towards St Kilda. Annoying little loop near the the little footbridge over the creek. Ran strong but couldn't quite maintain sub 4:00 pace for all of the 4 kms.
Post Race: nice little 18km run out to Sandringham along the beach trail and back along Beach road, as my long run training for Melbourne IM.
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