Bala Middle Distance Triathlon

Listed by Cliffy tc
Entrants (4) Club Pred Swim Pred Bike Pred Run Swim T1 Bike T2 Run Total
Cliffy tc Not expecting a PB after swimming 2km and cycling for 78km. Will be happy just to finish!!! As I've just stated, wasn't expecting a PB but just over 10mins off it and that was with run/walk. Started badly off the bike with pain in my shins which cleared after about 3 miles, carried on up to 5 miles when the hills started. It then turned into a run/walk just to get me round the course. Really chuffed to finish the event and crossed the finish line with my daughter. Unaffiliated 2:20:18 2:20:18
Crash Hamster Bala Middle Distance Triathlon...my first attempt at this distance. The weather was fairly hot and sunny... My swim was poor to start with, but found a rhythm and left the water in 44:30. The bike was ok, I thought that I'd never make it back to Bala with the undulating but hard last section...then suddenly the 'mostly ups' became 'mostly downs' and I was flying again :o) The run was hard, hot and hilly, but it went ok and I'm really pleased with my time :o) Pirate Ship Of Fools 5:43:33 5:43:33
Gumpster Unaffiliated
Hollywoof! My brief Bala race report: Aim for the day (decided on the morning): - swim - only event that uses the arms and swimming is a strength now - so sub-34 minutes please. - bike - see if you can get home in 16.6mph average - 3 hour target. - run - it's a hilly HM - so sub 2 hour aim. As it happened: - swim - stunning - not too cold - steady first kilometer - blitzed the return leg home overtaking heaps of swimmers - Shiraz says I was about 20th in just over 30 minutes :o) - T1 - awful - I was slow - forgot to start getting my wetsuit off immediately - then couldn't get it off... - bike - long... had some back problems (injured last week - overtraining?)... got overtaken by so many cyclists (as expected - serves me right for swimming so quick)... got truely awesome support from the pirate supporters :o) - T2 - quite quick - but got told off (but no penalty) for undoing my helmet early and wasted a few seconds as I started running without my Garmin and had to go back. - run - Unaffiliated 5:02:07 5:02:07

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