London Tri

August 10th, 2010 by Will

recovery!

Raced London Tri this weekend.

I tried something different (not sure why in reflection) and it didn’t really worked out but I enjoyed the weekend at my favourite race of the year.

I had a great swim which is nice, I got round without getting beaten up and I had plenty of gas to play with!

Onto the bike I really wanted to kinda take control so I burst out of transition in 3rd and was leading by 1k in and I put the pressure down so anyone who was hanging off the back would be dropped and hopefully out of the race.

By the first turn around we had 1minute on Jarrod Shoemaker an Hendrik De Villiers and it was looking good for us staying away. It was already apparent though that the big names were already looking at each other and missing turns. So we lost momentum.

I felt decent on the bike so rather then wait for the run I decided to try to make the most of the bike and try to win a race the exciting way.

Stu Hayes and I played with the field and tried to get some breaks, it looked like they were going to work but then the 2nd group caught us and with the extra horsepower they bought us back. It was difficult to get away but we put so much in that eventually the elastic broke and we got gaps. Stu got about 40 seconds, I got about 20 seconds which considering how much we put in was not nearly enough so as soon as I got on the run I knew i was in trouble.

Rest of race was survival, I felt probably the worst in quite some time! However looks like the bike really hurt some people so there was only a handful of athletes who were rested that beat me. I should have let up and not worked on the bike and i would have run well because I was feeling good on the day but hey…was fun trying something new though! You will never succeed till you have failed!

Friends Jarrod Shoemaker and Alicia Kaye are staying with me in Cambridge this week, I’ll show them about town and do some light training before Kitzbuhel where maybe I will recover in time…Just 4 days left!

Thanks for the support in London and congratulations to everyone who raced there! Especially the first timers. That run was nasty hey? 4 laps…It’s hard on the head I think? Here is Vernons and Jensons thoughts

Will

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