Bude results and post-mortem

[andygates]

Last time, honest. The official results are up and differ from my posted ones taken from the dodgy green tent:

Swim: 00:26:30, second slowest there. Woot! Not slowest! (I feel like Fry in Futurama) The modal swim time was about 15 minutes, so that nominal 500m was pretty stiff for all.

Bike: 00:38:47, halfway through the field. Happy to keep that relative position despite the aquatic beasting. What I need to work on is finishing the bike leg fresh for the...

Run: 00:31:21, can we say "fatigue" boys and girls? A 6:20 kilo (10-minute mile) pace again - definitely need to do work on this. That was as much of a shuffle as it felt.

Total: 01:36:38, 78th out of my group's 81 (!) As expected for an OW event, the "tail" was very short - a tight competitive spread from 1:02 to 1:25 then a short scattering of us noobs.

Comments

[skean.livejournal.com]

Looking at that, it looks like if you get comfortable with a crawl stroke, you'll jump up quite a bit.

I was watching the guys (o-er) down the pool last night who are good, and its all about 3 things: Technique, technique and technique.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

You forgot technique.