Busso 70.3 Race Report

After a short six day turn around it was back on the start line once again to tackle another Half Ironman - this time being the Busselton 70.3. After a hard race last weekend at Port Macquarie 70.3 where I finished 2nd, it was all about recovery in an attempt to be right for the race at Busso on Saturday.

Josh and I spent a few extra days in Port Mac chilling out before flying straight over to Perth on the Wednesday and then driving down to Busso. Thursday and Friday were spent doing various promotional events for the TriWA communtity including handing out medals at the junior tri on the Friday arvo. It was great to give something back to the triathlon community and to be a part of the activities with the other pro athletes.

Before we knew it Saturday morning had rolled around and it was ready to race! I was unsure how my body would feel after last week once the pressure was on, but I was ready to give it my all as soon as the gun went.

Once again the girls had a stacked field including Jo Lawn, Belinda Granger and Bec Keat. Just to be racing a against these girls is awesome and I aspire to be as successful as them one day in the future.

I had a great swim and came out with the main pack of girls, however once we hit the bike course I could tell it was going to be a long day - the body wasn't coming to the party! I managed to stick with the girls for the first 30km on the bike but soon found myself in no man's land for the final 60km. I still managed to ride solid though for the rest of the bike and pushed through on the run to finish up 7th Pro Female. I was pretty disappointed once I crossed the finish line, I was hoping for another race like last week, but after putting it into perspective - 2 Half Ironman's in 6 days at 23 years old, I can't expect too much. Over the 2 races I managed to rack up some valuable qualifying points and hopefully after some more good results in the US I will be in that top 30 girls selected to compete at World 70.3 Champs in Vegas.

It has been a great experience these last 10 days learning to live, train, travel and race as a pro athlete. Thanks so much to Josh for letting me hang out with him over the week...I'm sure he's just about had enough of hanging out with his brother's girlfriend!!

For now it's back to Melbourne for a few days of catching up with friends and chilling out before packing up and heading home to Tas for a week and then the US campaign begins!

And finally...after months of deliberation I have gotten on the Twitter bandwagon, I can sense an addiction coming on!