Friday, 25 July 2014

Race Preview - Inverurie Triathlon

Inverurie Triathlon is a bit of a strange one. It doesn't really suit me as it is a very long bike. Last year it poured with rain and was turned into an Aquathlon instead. 2013 race report. I did a 750m swim PB there and the swim was ok, but I benefitted massively from them removing the bike leg.

I could have put this in at the start of the year as a target race but I should absolutely destroy my previous times. I didn't blog either 2012 or 2011 as my head was in a terrible place for both of them.


While I seem not to have blogged either race the times are on my training diary. 2010 was before I had a blog, but it is also in my diary. I do remember we took a slightly shorter route on the bike. 



  2010 2011 2012 2013
Swim 15:44 14:11 14:01 13:21
Bike 01:05:06* 01:09:29 01:05:36 Cancelled - rain
Run 20:24 21:19 22:24 20:58
Total (approx) 01:41:14 01:44:59 01:42:01 0:34:19
*Short bike

I should swim somewhere under 13 mins. Hopefully bike very close to the hour mark, it is ~18.7 miles but it is quite lumpy and doesn't really suit the TT bike for long sections. Then hopefully run about 21 minutes. That should get me in somewhere around 1:34 plus the transitions which I don't seem to have a note of for any race. 

So while I could have set a PB for this race as a target for the year I probably have about 7 minutes of slack to play with so it would have been meaningless. 

Anything under 1:40 I will be happy with. 

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