Well, yesterday I completed the Merchant Taylor Sprint triathlon in 1h32:41, by my watch. It was a 750m swim, 20km cycle and 5km run, although my odometer only recorded just over 19km for the cycle leg.

The start of the swim was not great. I could not find a rhythm and ended up doing some breaststroke and then crawl alternations. Around half way though I found my swim stroke and finished in a time of 16:08. The cycle went ok and was completed in 43:33. Had some issues with my aero water bottle- sponge came out and I was getting drenched – I need to find a solution for this. The run of 5km was over grassy and some uneven ground but I completed it in 25:54. The mathematicians will see a missing 7 minutes – that of course is the time in transition. Mostly from T1. I made a few schoolboy errors (ie: race belt on before cycling jacket so had to take racebelt off and put it on a second time) which cost me a couple of extra minutes.  All part of the learning curve.

Overall I am happy with the performance and I am very pleased to have found my swimming rhythm in the second part of the swim. It gives me a certain amount of extra confidence that the swim can be enjoyable rather than a nightmare!

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