On the second Bank Holiday of this year we had the second of the Thames Turbo series of races. Having come second for the last three of these races, I was again disappointed to see that one of the previous winners was on the start sheet....unfortunately a chap who is a fair bit faster than me. So, I was fighting it out for second place and beyond for this one.
The swim was a pretty standard affair and I was pleased (to some extent) to be out the water in about 6 minutes as this means that the 426m is taking me the same time now as it did last year when I was doing about 3 times as much swim training.
Out on the bike we had some perfect conditions for some fast times but I was quickly scuppered when I got caught at the traffic lights for the full 20 seconds. Anyway, the rest of the ride went okay, apart from the fact that the saddle moved a bit and it just was not the same after that as it felt like I was sliding off all the time.
I decided to start the run off slower than normal this time and see if I could then build my pace over the 5k. This definitely seemed to help anyway and as I was soon knocking out some good km's and knew that I was on for a PB on the run, and probably the whole race as well. In the end, I did my first ever sub 19min run (it is 5.2km), not only just either, it was 18:39.
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