Race Time

It's been a while since I blogged. I have been extremely busy with one thing or another and computer time has had to be dropped in order to train!

It's the RAF Brize Norton Sprint Tri this Wednesday and i am looking forward to that. However, with the Beaver Middle Distance Tri the following Saturday, I will have to take an 'easy' race at Brize. I plan to just go for a PB 400m swim and then enjoy a relaxed spin and jog to get my T Shirt!

As part of my prep for the Beaver I did my first 50 mile TT last weekend. Man what a pain-fest! Everything hurt by the end! I have raced over 50 mile many times in triathlon but somehow a full-on TT is just different! I wanted sub-2 hours and I would have taken 1:59:59.9999!!! But I clocked 2:01:58. The final 11 mile stretch was into a headwind and it really ruined any chance of a sub 2 hour clocking. Nevertheless, it was great training for the Beaver. My running is still in 'get by with the bare minimum' mode. So I may suffer on the run.

The evening 10 mile TTs have been going ok and the return of the warm weather brought a season best 23:18 last Wed. my PB on this course is 22:52, so the biking is not too bad for may. My new 'A' Race is the Vitruvian and I hope to rescue my run form by September and peak on the bike too. My improved swimming seems to be fading!! This is what has happened in the past and I have no idea why I get some decent swim form and then lose it a few weeks later! Totally weird but I am not stressing over it.

After years of using Campag on my bikes I have recently been trying Shimano. So which is best? I have to say that Shimano gets my vote. The changes are crisper and you do not need to apply half as much pressure on the shifters as you do with Campag.

Anyway, got to jump on my bike and get some of this sunshine!! I do love the good weather!

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