Torrential rain when we got up, which then brightened up towards the west. Bryan picked us up in his very sleek Alpha Romero (Is that how you spell it?) and we toddled off, still raining, towards Castle Coombe. Got there early and had a cup of tea before we registered (goody bags pants but it was only 20 quid to enter). Was kept hanging around waiting for some time before my wave got under way, which meant we were all desperate to start, it was a very cold wind. Found it difficult to run with cold and stiff legs, so before I knew it everyone had sprinted off and I was towards the back. Didn't stop running though and about half way round I started catching people up again. Oh and it didn't help i'd forgotten to start my stopwatch so had no idea how fast I was going anyway. Decided against putting on my windjacket and gloves in transition, a bad idea I think, I was hot then but by the time we were out on the course and round the bend the wind was howling. So headed out onto the course for my first lap, was going along quite well and got down on my aero bars, thought 'i'm going to enjoy this' when no sooner had i thought that, had rounded the first corner and BANG, wind hits you and you end up pedalling forwards but going sideways, from then on round to the home straight again it was a constant battle against the wind, I was on my easiest gear but still hard work. The other problem was that my top gears seemed to be screwed, changing to the big chain ring it made a loud clattering sound, no amount of wiggling it seemed to help, so had to stay in small chain ring the whole race.
Anyway 5 laps finally came to an end (I counted very carefully) and I very slowly rounded the bend into the dismount area, remembered to take my helmet off (I'd seen someone running with it still on) and put wet trainers on as it had rained and hailed slightly while we were cycling.
On the second run it felt much much slower than the first time (but actually only a few minutes) as I had a few walk breaks. my stomach seemed to be all over the place with a very painful stitch or indegestion feeling. must get that sorted.
Came in at about 1 hour 22 minutes, very disappointed to be so close to the back after training 6 times a week for 6 months. it's very disheartening as I'm so competitive I imagine myself to be the fit woman sprinting for the line instead of the slightly overweight, well not overweight but not skinny, woman waddling/walking towards the back. Half of me just wants to give up, why bother? but the other half wants to train twice as much in order to improve. Something needs to happen anyway.
Run 1: 19:21.6
Transition 1: 02:00.0
Bike split: 37:13.6
Transition 2: 01:41.7
Run 2: 22:02.7
Total: 1:22:19.5
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