The Long and the Short of it...

With the Ironman done and dusted for another season, I was feeling relatively good and (for a nice change!) uninjured. I decided to take the opportunity to do a few short course races and get a bit more work in on my swim starts and transitions.

I figured it would be interesting to see how much speed I had in me after a long summer of Ironman training.

I entered Race 6 of the Gatorade Series, taking place at Raby Bay.

This was a 400/15/4 sprint distance tri. The weather on the day was a bit dodgy, with rain clouds hanging around and occasionally unloading onto the course, making the many corners on the technical bike course nothing short of diabolical.

I managed to nab 5th in my age Group with 5:13/28:17/14:19 - 47:51

Then a mate of mine asked me to fill in on corporate team with him for the BRW Corporate Triathlon, which is a 400/10/4 event held down at The Spit on the Gold Coast.

The AMP Corp team of myself, Izzy and Ash ended up having a great day (morning?), actually crossing the line first, and coming out in the mix with 2nd in Mens Overall, 1st in Corporate Banking & Finance category, as well as 4th overall outright!

I managed the following splits - 5:11/19:52/16:10

Everyone seems to be in agreeance that the run course was about 5oom long. Emma Snowsill, Craig Walton and Fliss Abram raced on the day as well, and their run times were definitely slower than what you'd expect over 4k's as well.


I haven't done this kind of racing in quite a while, i forgot how much it hurts !!
It really reminded me how much the 'shortcourse guys' deserve the respect of long course triathletes, there's often a perception out there that it's "just a short triathlon", but in reality it's an absolute balls-to-the-wall sufferfest !

SO....just one more race left in the season - Byron Bay Oly Distance !!

This was one of the first triathlons I ever did, way back in 2002. I havent done it since then, the course looks to have changed a little bit, but it's always a great race and a 1pm race start !!

After Byron it's time for a little bit of a rest and then ramping up the running a bit for the Gold Coast Marathon....

See you there !

Yox2