Hard day at the office again
June 21st, 2009 by Will
Always a pleasure racing World Championships Series events! Â Its a good job I didn’t write this post a few hours ago because I wasn’t a happy bunny!
What a race. Â I’m tired but want to get the info to you tonight so I’m gonna write it in a wacky time line.
Saturday
14:00 Went to swim practice, found out we couldn’t swim because all the heavy rainfall has polluted the water and it would be a risk to our health!
14:30 ITU are saying its going to be a Duathlon, big fuss from all the athletes. Â Huge race, great LIVE TV coverage, incredible venue all to waste…we signed a petition
17:00 After all that we decided to keep it as a Triathlon and race at our own risk! Very happy that we came to this decision…
17:30 Went for a run, Bloody hot! Checked out the Platomic river to see what the fuss was all about and I saw heaps of logs and muck floating down the river with a huge current!
18:00 Dinner in fantastic Pasta Restaurant + lots of Banter with Stu, Clare, Ali and I.
21:00 Bed.
Sunday
05:30 Warm up run+stretch cords+Breakfast. Banana, Oats and Bread
08:35 Warm up swim, almost got knocked out by a log floating down the river, it also took me about twice as long as expected to get to the first buoy!
09:10 HHHHOOOOONNNNKKKK. Â We departed but not as quickly as the false starting Japanese guy next to me who then stopped right in front of me giving me no room and forcing me to the back of the pack!
09:17 Swam though about 25 meters worth of Logs, reeds, muck, condom’s and whatever else! Hurt myself and lost the feet in front of me. I managed to limit my losses thought and came out the water just in the main group.
09:31 Smooth transition, but soon discovered that Alistair (again) Maik Petzold, Javier Gomez, Hunter Kemper and Andy Potts had 30 seconds on us, an excellent chance for those guys to stay away.
09:50 We put in a really hard lap and I could have sworn that we would get them back…Gap before was 35 seconds…lap time after our effort…35 seconds!!! NOOOOO! Lots of heads dipped in disappointment! Thats them below.
10:10 Everyone sat up in our group and the gap went out to 2 minutes and 10 seconds….Game over, now racing for 6th best case scenario. Its a huge shame and so frustrating that we can’t get organised in these situations. Â There’s so many good athletes in our group I cant believe they all want to race for 6th.
10:30 Headed out on run feeling fairly swift. Â The boys were running fast throwing in lots of surges to break it up. My game plan was to go with it till I couldn’t anymore and I think on the most past I dealt with the surges well. A lot of the best guys in the world dropped off the pace…
10:50 Olympic Champ Jan Frodeno got onto his toes and started sprinting, getting in the cameramans’ motorbike slip stream, Obliterating the opposition splitting us all into little groups, everyone dropped off, including me. Â Steffen Justus and I remained together but I lost touch on the last lap and couldn’t close him down.
10:59 Alistair Brownlee won his 2nd World Championships Series, about 10 secs in front of Gomez and Maik not far off the pace.
11:01 I crossed the line in 10th place.
11:05 Â Protein Shake, Jog, Ice bath, Compex (muscle recovery) and Sandwich and 3xDunkin Doughnuts.
11:30 I congratulated fellow team mate Gavin Noble on a solid race.
I’m going to have to sleep on this one and come back to you with my feelings on the race tomorrow! I’m very hard on myself and an emotional racer so I better give it some time to cool off!
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