2013 Race Report is here. Some details seem to be missing but I have fished the times out of my spreadsheet.
This year is a slightly different format. There will be two heats with men in heat 1 and women and super-vet men racing separately. However, with the start times scheduled for 10 minutes apart this should result in almost exactly a lap of difference coming in to the run so my final run lap should be a good guide for where I am against the other heat racers that I normally compete against, with them almost exactly a lap behind. And the split heats and the changed swim course should hopefully clean up a little bit of the fighting in the tight corners at the start of the swim.
2013 Swim 13:57.
I should go about a minute quicker on the swim this year. Wednesday night on a solo swim after riding I was at 13:07 for the race loop. I can hack another chunk off that in a race. Ideally I would like to get down to somewhere around 12:30. I have picked my lines for the new corners and I know I have to push hard the first 150m to avoid the crush at the first tight turn.
2013 Bike 35:04
Purely from having been fitted for the bike I should go faster. I think there is something of the order of a minute here just from being more comfortable on my TT bike. On top of that I am definitely in faster shape than last year. The bike leg is always a bit prone to weather though. As of Friday evening the BBC forecast says 18 degrees and 10mph winds. Should result in a very fast bike.
2013 Run 21:44
I wasn't running particularly well last year. Difficult to tell what might happen here though. If I have worked too hard early on I might pay a price here. Hopefully I will be in amongst the people I want to be racing at this point and that will be enough to drag me to a faster time.
Transitions
I can save another bit here if it is warmer as I will skip the jacket. But I am willing to sacrifice the seconds to add the socks.
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