After Speedy Beaver, it was great to do a less serious event - though the lack of serious-ness hampered me a bit in the swim as some of my fellow lane mates had completely overestimated their swimming ability and I had to overtake them multiple times!
Over the last few months I'd been putting a lot more time into swimming, going three times a week and building volume, and today I finally saw the benefit, clocking 7.20 for 400m. A huge improvement from the 8mins + it took me at the Wilmslow Tri at the beginning of May.
The race was so chilled out, people were stopping to chat and have a drink in transition - I really enjoyed the atmosphere, love to see a huge range of people having a go! The bike route was windy, hilly, and challenging for me - but quicker than my previous tri rides as I clocked 36:27 for 12 miles. The 2 lap grass run route round playing fields provided great visibility of competitors in front of me and I quickly chased a lot of people down, clocking 19.15 for 5km
Overall I was 7th female, and 4th in my category:
Swim: 7.20 (7th cat, 17th female)
T1: 1.28 (10th cat, 34th female) - NEEDS IMPROVEMENT!
Bike: 36.27 (7th cat, 20th female)
T2: 0.53 (12th cat, 41st female) - NEEDS IMPROVEMENT!
Run: 19.15 (2nd cat, 3rd female)
By far and away my best triathlon to date, and I was very happy with my performances in each disciple, though my transitions need a lot of work as I'm giving away time unnecessarily here.
I felt a lot more confident about trying to qualifying for the GB Age Group Team in September after Desford!
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