Race Review - Westhill Triathlon

Swim was actually not too bad. I started with the tumble turns, at both ends because Westhill is a strange pool with two deep ends. I then switched to touch turns at about 300m and started to move away from the adjacent lane swimmers who had been going the same speed as me until then. However, having looked at the data garmin did collect it made no difference to my pace so it must have been them slowing down rather than me speeding up. Garmin stopped at 525, possibly got kicked as I tapped someone for an overtake which means I don't have data from there. 

I didn't get tapped by the lane counter so I actually started an extra length before one of the marshalls told me I had finished. Then they also stopped both the guys that I had lapped. I got out and across the mats in a time of 12:55. With the extra 10m swim and the time to get back to the mats I was probably actually about 12:45 for the swim which would be a PB again. Judging by the time I probably did the right distance (plus 10m) so the two people I had lapped must have been 50m short.  

My transition was a bit rubbish. I was chatting away all the way through it. Nothing horribly wrong but nothing too slick either. Avoided the mistake I made a couple of years ago when I fell off trying to mount my bike. 

Onto the bike I wasn't feeling too great and it took me a few minutes to get into my rhythm and it was a lot colder than I had expected. I was fine for the first couple of miles, then we turned onto what should be a fast section. And I lost place after place. I took a long lead into the braking zone and still felt twitchy as the brakes on my TT bike were a bit dodgy. Then there is a turn and a short climb and I lost another place to someone who never beats me on bike sections. And that was it for me. 

With nothing in my legs even on the flats never mind the hills and feeling nervous on the corners of all the descents I let common sense take over and I just pedalled round the rest of the first lap and got off. It was cold and I felt utterly exhausted by the time I got back.

Hopefully just fatigue from too many races over the last couple of months.