Race Results: Gatorade Race 3 - Brighton
My second race for the season, and first triathlon in quite a while. I’ve actually been training pretty consistently for the last couple of months, so wasn’t too worried about my fitness level going into this event, but still wasn’t really expecting too much.
You can imagine my surprise when I checked my times this morning and found that I’d done a four-and-a-bit minute PB. I found this a bit weird because while I felt OK in the swim, I felt really heavy on the bike… I just wasn’t firing (but it turns out to be not such a bad ride when compared to previous races anyway). And despite feeling a bit sluggish off the bike, the run came together pretty nicely.
- Swim (500m): 00:10:00
- T1: 00:01:42
- Bike (20km): 00:34:19
- T2: 00:00:46
- Run (5km): 00:22:05
- Overall time: 01:08:54
I still need to do a bit more work on the swim (nothing new there!) and try to figure out what went on with the ride, but it was good to get back into race mode again, and I’ve now got a bit more of a baseline to work from with the build to Victor Harbor in a couple of month’s time.
