Half-fast. Not slow. Not fast. Not prepared.

Race Results: Melbourne Marathon

A much better result than last year, knocking 40mins off my previous time (admittedly, I wasn’t running injured this year, so expected to go significantly faster). I was aiming for 3:30, so am pretty pleased with the time, but still need to do a bit of work on my pacing; my half marathon PB is 1:33, so to go through halfway during a marathon at 1:35 was probably a bit too quick (which showed in my split for the run home).

• 10.5km: 0:48:22
• 21.1km: 1:35:49
• 42.2km: 3:25:25

With only 8 weeks until the big dance in Busselton, this was a pretty decent hit out. I’m fairly confident across the three disciplines… all I need to do now is make sure I can string them all together.

I’m racing Noosa in a couple of weeks, and Shepparton a couple of weeks after that, so will have a couple of good tune ups before IMWA.

Had a body fat percentage test this morning; currently at ~14%. I need to lose ~940g of fat to get to my 13% target.

All Good Things…

…must come to an end. The last month or so has been pretty quiet on the training/racing front (with one notable exception) — it’s our annual rest and recovery month. All this is drawing to a close however, and it’s time to start thinking about the winter running season as well as next summer… and Busselton is only 223 days away.

I’m actually really looking forward to getting back into serious training. I have a couple of goals to aim for with my running (I want to set new PBs for both the half marathon and marathon this winter) and I’m keen to do some work on my swim. Should be a fun few months ahead.

Race Results: Gatorade Race 6 - St Kilda

The last race of the season, and definitely one of the most fun. I actually raced pretty well — despite having backed off on training pretty significantly after racing Ironman 70.3 Geelong last month — setting my best bike and run splits for the distance and sitting near my peak swim pace.

• Swim (750m): 00:13:10
• T1: 00:01:32
• Bike (20km): 00:35:17
• T2: 00:01:24
• Run (5km): 00:22:31
• Overall time: 01:13:54

Now for a couple of weeks or so off tri training while I get prepped for Trailwalker (incidentally, we’re still looking for sponsors!), a couple of weeks off completely after that, then into training for Busselton. I’m really looking forward to this winter.

Race Results: Nissan BRW Corporate Triathlon

Due to one of my team members falling ill, I ended up going around twice - but given it wasn’t a long event, I wasn’t too upset about that. On the whole, I wasn’t overly happy with my times; the first time around, I probably went a bit conservatively; and my second go really showed up my lack of training since racing the 70.3 in Geelong a few weeks back.

• Swim (400m): 00:07:46
• Bike (10km): 00:22:48
• Run: (4km): 00:17:21
• Overall time: 00:47:55

• Swim (400m): 00:10:22
• Bike (10km): 00:23:49
• Run: (4km): 00:18:23
• Overall time: 00:52:24

(We didn’t get transition times in the results… I’m assuming they’re worked into the overall time somehow.)

It was all a lot of fun though, which I guess is the main point of BRW anyway.

Only one race left for the season: Gatorade Race 6 at St Kilda in three weeks’ time. I’ll have to jump into the training again so that I can have a decent go at it. And after that, the winter program begins…