Competing in my first Triathlon in close to 5 years, my last outing was Forster Ironman 2002 & then life got in the road of all the time it took to compete at the level that I was used to.
On sunday morning a sprint distance Triathlon is being held in Taree (also for the first time in 5 years) so I've dusted off the speedo's, bike & running shoes, put together a solid 3 weeks of training & I'm going to have a crack at it.
Wont be setting any records, just want to finish & hopefully get the competitive juices flowing again (Masters Games are on later this year).
Thinking I might be in a whole world of pain in Monday morning.
Race report will follow.
Cheers
Brendan
[ Edited on 15-1-2007 by Special Air Service ]
barls ·
good luck mate hope its not too hard on you
amazeeer ·
good onya. how far is it?
Bizarre ·
:bounce
Look forward to the report
Have fun
Matt Ryan ·
Good onya Brendan. Just remember, your pain, is our amusement so, keep us updated!
Matt.
Special Air Service ·
Thanks guys, the distances are 500m swim, 20km bike & 5km run which is not really a problem, the hurt will come from racing harder than I should do on the limited amount of training Ive done.
See what happens I spose.
Cheers
Brendan
Special Air Service ·
OK, so the race has now been run & won, & I must say I'm fairly happy with the way I raced & recovered.
I finished in 1hr 7mins (about 8mins behind the leader) & won my age group (35-39yrs) don't know what my splits were as I forgot to hit the lap button on my watch at the end of the swim & bike legs, I'll have to wait for the official results to be sent out.
It was the first time my 3yr old twins had seen me race & it was pretty awesome to have them yelling out "Go Dad" each time I went past them.
I pulled up pretty good no real sore spots, I obviously didnt go hard enough on the day.
So now I'm going to pencil in another race a bit later on this summer & see if I can make any improvements.
Cheers
Brendan
Bizarre ·
Congrats, Champ! :bounce
Matt Ryan ·
Well done Brendan, we'll have to start calling you the Old Bar Flash!
Have the Kids started their own races around the backyard yet?