2011/12 Gatorade Tri Series Race #5 Report

After having a less than impressive swim in my last Gatorade Sprint Tri at Brighton, I was really looking at putting in a better effort in yesterdays Race #5 at Elwood. I decided to do a longer 1km warm-up in the water prior to race start, as it often takes me quite sometime to feel warmed up and raring to go. This seemed to work a treat as I came out of the 500m swim with the lead bunch of 6 girls. The pace was one through T1 and a rookie error by myself saw me almost miss that lead bunch as I got caught up in a fence just before the mount line. How this happened I don't know! However, luckily it was disaster averted and I quickly found my way onto the 20km bike course. We had a nice group of 6 all working well together on the bike, and managed to stay ahead of the chase pack. Once again, the pace was on coming into T2. I managed to avoid all fences this time and made my way out onto the run course at the pointy end and it wasn't long until I hit the front. I knew I would have to keep the pace up as there were some quick girls behind me. The legs were feeling a little shabby after last weeks long course at Falls Creek so I was happy to only be running 5km. I managed to put in a strong run leg and crossed the line in 1st place. The win also happened to be my 10th win in the Gatorade Triathlon Series since I started in 2008 so it was nice to see that I still mix it in these shorter races!



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