Nepean Race Report (Half of it anyway)

Been a good couple of weeks training recently with the BMMC boys (and girls). Starting to really enjoy it and finally beginning to see some early signs of feeling good! The running feels like its improving and on the new bike am beginning to feel slightly competitive.

After having a good ride at Perth, it was the NSW Long Course Champs in Forster. Love that place! After a nice morning ride with Prince Donger on the Saturday morning, i headed up to Forster, registered, pitched the old tent and settled down for the night and watched the sun set over the river! Lovely! Race day came after a good night's sleep courtesy of Mr P (Sherro), and his inflatable air bed (that's just me and the bed, not me the bed and Mr P just to clarify) and i woke to clear skies and the beginning's of what was to be another hot race day! To keep it brief, didn't have a great swim about 3 1/2 minutes slower than 2008, had a great ride, about 12 minutes quicker than 2008, but again felt terrible on the run in the hot conditions, coming in 6 minutes slower than 2008. All in all the bike leg helped me to a disappointing 3 minutes quicker on the previous year in 3:41.05.

Two weeks of training and 12km of swimming, 260km of riding and 110km running later and it was time for the Nepean Triathlon. Again, average swim, 1km in 17.42, although that was to be expected with it being a non-wetsuit swim, and then another strong ride, at least what felt like a strong ride until a flat ended my race at the furthest most point on the course from transition! Was really annoyed at the time as there was only about 8km left of the 30km ride and was desperate to finish but the walk back helped the temper cool off before i enjoyed the relaxing process of watching the others come in including The Animal, Mrs Scam, Lady Ga Ga, LL#2 and a fine performance from Sean. Well done all!

This week has been a bit mixed with a birthday in the middle breaking up the prior consistency! Highlights so far have included a PB at the Tri club handicap on Tuesday with a time of 24.39 beating my previous best of 24.51, and another solid effort at the BMMC High altitude training camp up Kadumba pass with a 49.00 climb from creek to finish. Looking forward to the Royal National Park run on the weekend to hopefully take me over 80km running for the week for the first time EVER!!