Blenheim triathlon results
I’ve just done a review of the results:
Overall I came 796 out of 3326.
Which is in the 23rd percentile. I’m fairly pleased with that.
The results aren’t categorised yet so I can’t see where I came in the 40-45 category.
It probably won’t be too different I should imagine
Swim 2000 60%
Bike 735 22%
Run 609 18%
So I did best on the run overall and not far behind on the bike and pretty poorly on the swim.
I think I went off a bit too hard in the swim and that slowed me down a bit well a lot really!, Compared to my pool times in relation to Chalky my mate who did the race I was about 2 mins 30 down on what I should have done, so that was a bit of a disappointment.
I’ll have to do a LOT more open water swimming in a wetsuit to get that time down
It was pouring with rain on the Saturday the day that I did the race and lovely sunshine on Saturday so my bike time would have been slower as a percentage compared to the rest of the field and perhaps may come down to the 18% mark that I achieved on the run. That would make sense as I probably do equal amounts of running and cycling.
I’ll enter some more triathlons in the future now that I have got the wetsuit and my bike sorted out. I’ll use the bike to cycle to Karate a bit more often
and maybe go out on an occasional long ride, I’ll take my wetsuit when I go on holiday to France and swim in the Dordogne at Dave and Hilary’s and when I go up to Scotland to visit Ingrid and Blythe. Apart from that I probably won’t do any specific triathlon training. I’m never going to be competitive enough to win any events as I’m too heavy. If they start weight categories and there is an over 100KG category then that might be different as I might have a chance then.
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Well done Gav.Wish I could have done it with you but looking forward to Roade Triathlon on Sept 27th.
I know it was in invisible ink but I spotted the ‘you were right Mum’ about doing more training in the wetsuit!!! (Chuckle chuckle)
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