The North West Triathlon

Sun September 5 2010
Listed by parkbench
Entrants (5) Club Pred Swim Pred Bike Pred Run Swim T1 Bike T2 Run Total
Jon_P Newcastle Tri Club, Audlem Cycling Club 13:00 47:00 24:00 14:06 48:29 25:20 1:27:55
Little Linz Unaffiliated 10:42 48:38 25:01 1:24:21
Liverbird Pirate Ship Of Fools 13:00 50:00 33:00 12:49 53:06 32:51 1:38:46
parkbench Unaffiliated 13:00 44:00 24:00 13:22 48:03 24:37 1:26:02
Stoatally 1:37.52
Overall a really nice day out. the rain held off until I'd finished at least, and it wasnt actually that bad for those still running.
The bike course was quite nice, reasonably fklat witha few ubndulations, made worse by a slow decrease fromm 100psi to about 25 by half way at which point I stopped to fil up. SHortly after I spotted a lad with a proper punture so stopped to see if he was ok. I did offer a spare tube but he declined so I took it as a quick rest stop ate some energy bar thingy and was off again. The moral of the sory is - if your tyre is flat the night before, dont just pump it up and hope, its probably better to change simething.
Run course was a nice slow walk/run  4 times round a lovely grassy field. I did manage a full run or the whole of the last lap and a not dire time so fairly happy (especially as its my weakest discipline.
Bizarely Ive left teh first discipline till last - the swim. I have lots of things I'd like to say about it but I think I'll try no ttoo. Suffice to say I drank half a pools worth of brine and felt sick for half the bike loop, the pool was overcrowded with many a knob getting in everyones way. Unhappy with the time as I kept getting blocked in the lane, and if I catch that bloke with the yellow hat being an arse again I WILL kick you next time.
Nice run, nice bike - hopeless swim section (just because I swim breast stroke DOES NOT mean that crawl is quicker and I DONT have to get out of your way.
t1 in bike
t2 in run BADtri, Pirate Ship Of Fools 13:00 1:00:00 30:00 11:33 50:52 35:27 1:37:52

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