Race Results: Gatorade Race 4 - Portarlington
My return to “racing” two months after Ironman WA, and my times reflect the amount of training (or lack of) I’ve done since then. On top of an almost-zero training load, some heavy rain meant that the water quality was too poor to stage a swim, turning the race into a duathlon (which I’d never done before).
- Run (2km): 00:08:11
- T1: 00:01:37
- Bike (26km): 00:45:32
- T2: 00:01:35
- Run (8km): 00:36:49
- Overall time: 01:33:43
The big takeaway from this race? In order to perform well, one must train. I still had a lot of fun, though - and it was nice to be back out competing participating.
Half-fast (say it out loud: “half-arsed” — pretty funny, right?) is the almost-semi-freqently updated training/racing blog of 