RAF Brize Norton Sprint Tri

First triathlon of the year at Brize Sprint last year. Having raced this event numerous times and the fact that it was way too short for my current training and aims, it was a training race cor fun. Managing 4th overall was a surprise but I was no where near the top 3. Luke Pollard is flying and went faster than anyone else has ever recorded at Brize. Impressive indeed. As for my race I was happy enough, though a swim of 6:29 is shoddy. Hopefully I can be better over long distance. In fact I have had a few decent swim sessions since Brize Tri: a timed 1.9k at 32:10 and a good set of 200s hard followed by 400 easy. Dipped under 3:00 for 200 for the first time in a while. The bike at Brize was very windy and I never felt comfortable. A 29:10 clocking is not that far away from my fastest on that course. The run was a shuffle to start with but once I got going I felt smooth. A time of 19:16 is not far away from my fastest at 19:04. Quite how Luke, Dan Lewis and Mal ran so fast I just do not know! Luke and Dan were under 18 min and Mal not far behind. But off my long distance training I am happy with my running. The latest mega 800m rep session was yesterday at 2 x 800 with 1 min recovery. I wanted to maintain 3:20 pace, which equates to a decent half IM pace of 6:40 mailing. I pretty much did this though I was getting fatigued towards the end. Having tired legs from the week`s training certainly made it harder. I had completed the evening 10 mile TT the night before and included a 20 mile tempo loop before the 10. My time was dire! My slowest by a mile at 24:15. I guess I am fatigued. Add to that the deliberate lack of top end turbo work and I couldn't have expected much - but still disappointed! I have an Open 25 TH on Sat and am now trying to keep grounded as I fear I will be over the hour. Eye on the goal. . . .