TriBob Sprint Triathlon

There was an air of expectation this year with the event not least because CH, JT and JN have agreed to do the mini. Was an early morning start for me and I arrived at carpark 4 at 630 am. Decided to use my orbea with the zipp 1080 wheels. ARrive got a vantage spot at transition and met CH first, had a banana and chit chatted a bit. The atmosphere was very carnival like and after the body marking i went out to the beach and got a bit of a warm up. The tide was amazingly low and you could literally walk to the first buoy which was not good. Current was minimal. My wave was the 3 rd one and I did my usual last in the water and went to the right. I had learnt some valuable lessons from yellowfish swimming and was looking to put into some serious test. I swam strong and confident and was for the first time actually overtaking some chaps. got out of the water at 17:00; a pb! got out on the bike and rode decent averaging 33-35 km/h. thefinal average was 32-33km/hr i think because of the time spent going round the hairpin and mounting and dismounting not that i was really bothered.the run was where it all went pear shaped. i was hoping to do a 5:15 to 5:30 but the lack of airtome in the runs was telling, i managed just under 6:00/km barely. all in all a 1:27 time which was an improvement from last year. JN, JT and CH all did sensationally and I was secretly pleased they completed comfortably.maybe i can persuade them to go one level up and who knows, they may be travelling with me for ironman events?!