This is a bit of a strange preview to write. I wasn't planning to do this race, partly because it didn't exist until about 2 weeks ago. It dropped off the circuit a few years back and has just been resurrected. In future years it is going to be an early season race but for this year it is going to appear as a very late race.
Here are my results from last time it existed in 2010:
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It is difficult to try and use this to set targets for racing again this year though.
The swim time I can take a stab at because it is going to just be a 750m pool swim. So I should go somewhere between 12:30-12:50 depending on what sort of draw I get and how my turns go.
But from there we are into completely random guesswork. The bike route I remember as being really fast, and that was without the fast bike and the pointy hat. Looking at some of the other times from 2010 I think I should go about 41-42 minutes.
The run is another really hard to predict. I think that last time I did this race I got it about right so the time I ran then is about what I would do now if I push slightly too hard on the swim and bike. But the run is pretty much dead flat out-and-back and there should be decent targets to chase, so if I get the bike right then 18 minutes-ish doesn't look ridiculous.
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