Cotswold Classic - Triathlon

No swim training for 2 months, relaxed for first 1/3, concentrated on good drafting.
a few swims before hand would help, especially open water 1 hour swims so you can pace the last 400 metres

swim before hand. Have confidence to push a bit harder.

40th out of 358. fastest time was 34 seconds

Keep it simple, dont add food or extra bits, have it all laid out.

7mins faster would put me in top 50 riders
sky gel at 30mins, high five on the hour mark.
12 mins faster than last year.
Bike, did not do much effort in Z3

do not have water, use electrolyte drink. have one full bottle then replace at aid station.

put socks on.
1 gel at 12 km mark by aid station. tried to have 3 steady laps:
held on first lap
built on second lap
last lap tough from 16km to 18km, had to dig deep.


use road running shoes if dry as surface is quite hard.
do some 20km runs before hand
do some brick training

jump in river


lack of swim training, lack of specific bricks
need lots of short sharp runs.
overall pacing was about right.
04:46:15 is top 20% placing.
could gain 5 mins on swim.
5 on bike
5 on run.


Great race, beat target of sub 5 hours, but as not an A race feel I could go faster.