With a start time of 10.30am for the first(slower) wave it meant we weren’t entering the pool much before 11am on the 2nd wave for the start of the BRAT club tri and with temps up in the mid 30s once again it was going to be a battle.
Yes, missed the Sunday long run and chose to do the BRAT triathlon instead, although with the heat I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea, The Swim leg was nice and I just sat on this guy who had managed 4th in his age group last week at Kurnell in 68 minutes and said he swum around the 13 minute mark. Felt pretty easy and touched the tiles bang on the 13 min marker, stuffed around in transition and saw ‘Sparks Elite’ Man ‘Sugar Ray get on the bike the same time as me and Biathlon Champ Mike (who can keep Tom company on the run at the ABC) also leaving transition about the same time.
10 x 2k laps on the bike and managed to drop Sugar but Mike was always close by for the duration, Saw sometimes Hurts man Jason Heyden some way ahead courtesy of his swim leg but was reducing the gap on each lap. Off the bike in around 33 minutes, coming in with Mike not far behind and Jas about 50m ahead on the run. The run leg is 3 laps of about 1650m each time and we soon caught Jas , and basically for the first time for me it was race on between the 3 of us. I knew Jason didn’t really have the run leg, Mike does but wasn’t sure how much the bike had taken out of him, and for me? …… Well I was hurting and just hanging on. Dropped Jas on the 2nd lap, and was tucked in but always felt Mike had plenty left in the tank and could find another gear if needed, think he put about 10m into me and that was pretty much it.
Despite the heat I hung in though and was more than happy to finish 2nd with an overall time of 65.48
Will post up the official results when they are up , but I think I was running about 3.45 pace on the run, that I will take and hopefully I can repeat in 3 weeks when I give the Kurnell Sprint a go?
Wrecked now, that heat just smashes you, but very pleased with how the 2 days have gone over the weekend. Will probably go and undo all the hard work now as I have a massive Aussie Day BBQ to attend – and this is the biggest of the year J
Rest Day tomorrow.
Yesterday I had the privilege to head to the Shire (or God’s Country – as they keep telling us) and met up with HuRTS fastest lady over the years, but has been on the sidelines injured for much of 2014. On the comeback trail once again is Lady Laura James after a horror past 12 months. Had a good chat about where she is at and some of her goals for the year as we went all healthy on the fruit juice before saying ‘bugger it’ and headed to the Cronulla RSL for a beer that is more our style. Tried to get Eloise to join us but she was away altitude training but was left devastated when she found out I was ‘in the hood’ and missed out, as for the Shire’s #32 Damo Bray, ….. well we just didn’t call him J
Keep an eye out for her, as she will be back before long and no doubt kicking our @r$e$ along the way.
Only saying late last year that the HuRTS girls had a stellar year running, unfortunately they didn’t finish the year off as well or even start this year in style with Laura injured, Erika stepping on all sorts on those dirty North Shore beaches, Sonya struggling to stand after a night on the turps breaking her collarbone and Elle pregnant its left only Corky O’Conner and HuRTS #1 Renee to carry the female flag.
Cheers
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