Race Preview - Huntly Standard Triathlon

Here are the results from my previous 3 attempts at this race. 
2010

Split Name Leg Time Pos Cat Pos Gen Pos Dist Done Race Time Swim 00:31:23 45 19 37 1.5  00:31:23 T1 00:00:59 16 8 14  00:32:22 Cycle 01:24:45 51 20 41 40  01:57:07 T2 00:00:53 32 11 23 01:58:00  Run 00:51:50 30 16 27 10 02:49:50

2012

Split Name Race Time Leg Time Pos Cat Pos Gen Pos Swim 00:28:26 00:28:26 32 14 22 T1 00:29:52 00:01:25 36 14 28 Cycle 01:47:30 01:17:38 42 19 37 T2 01:48:09 00:00:39 27 12 20 Run 02:39:13 00:51:04 29 12 23

2013

Split Name	Race Time	Leg Time	Time of Day	Pos	Cat Pos	Gen Pos
Swim	00:27:30	00:27:30	11:22:45	28	12	23
T1	00:29:24	00:01:53	11:24:39	51	16	39
Cycle	01:40:17	01:10:53	12:35:32	26	12	24
T2	01:40:42	00:00:25	12:35:57	6	2	5
Run	02:32:19	00:51:36	13:27:34	24	12	20

With my new turns I should be comfortably able to beat last year's swim time. To get my annual target of swimming a 1500m race in under 27min is also possible. It would take a good swim but shouldn't take a great swim. A decent lane draw might be anough to take a minute off last year's time.

Over the past three attempts at this race I have carved 7 minutes off the bike each time. I can't see anything like that happening again. I am biking well though so I should be able to sneak under 1 hour 10.

The run on all three attempts has been 51:something. I would like to at least get a time under 50, but I will take something similar again.

So despite having a good year, and knowing that I am in great shape, my target for this race is pretty much just do do something slightly better than last year. If I could sneak under 2hours 30 I would be really happy.

The weather looks like it is going to be as good as last year.