14/05/2025
First 70.3 distance tri complete ✨
~ a debrief of Sunday below 👇🏼
Safe to say this did not go completely to plan at all, but many lessons learnt 🤝🏼.
This was also good practice before Copenhagen full, as if these things had gone wrong I don’t want to think what could have happened!
Swim:
This went very wrong.
Never swam that slowly, not entirely sure why but I felt like I couldn’t breathe as the water was freezing, so kept stopping and treading water to try and breathe.
I’ve not done any open water swimming so definitely need to practice this, just been in an empty lane. It was not good, I quite literally forgot how to swim.
Also a bit disconcerting being in dark water, but this is just something to get over.
Bike:
First 20 minutes felt good!
Beautiful scenery and was enjoying it.
Then I went into a hole in the road and my gears made a crack sound and stopped working, I was stuck in gear 1 with no resistance.
A guy stopped and tried to help but no clue what to do, I turned it upside down and span the wheels backwards but this did not help the situation 🤣.
At this point I considered just pulling out, pace could not be hit and I was frustrated to say the least, but wanted to finish!
The event was open roads and no aid stations, so was much completely alone.
My water bottles kept falling out, so had to keep stopping, getting off and running back to get them. This happened six times in total, once at the top of a hill.
Had to run back down the hill to collect it, I feel like at this point it was just funny, if you don’t laugh you will cry?!
However I did not fall of which I’ll take as a win!!
Run:
Had not run for a few weeks due to injury, but first 10k felt ok, was at the lower end of the pace I wanted to hit but felt fine.
There was 1 aid station on the run & had coke halfway which was another mistake, I had never done this in training.
It then came back up 2k later, so wouldn’t do that again.
I think I need to take my own advice, always practice with the fuel you have trained with!
Many things to work & improve on, some of it was enjoyable too ✨
Time to lock in for Copenhagen full in 3 months 🫶🏻