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I will be racing in the French Grande prix For team tritons meldois in div 3 next year and I am hugely looking forward to it!! The team is based in Meaux east of paris, i will be travelling over to races with my team mate Phil Whiley who also trains at bath.
Im now in my third year at Bath university studying Sports Performance , the second year was hard as i lost my coach chris volley who had helped me mature in triathlon greatly in such a short time. I was then essentially coachless until my run coach from home Geoff watkins offered to help me and has been coaching me for triathlon for the last year. Geoff has helped me so much and puts a lot of time and effort into my training and with out him i would have trained my self into the ground by now. I am slowly learning to become more independent as a athlete and i feel this will be very important in this final year of my degree. This year I will have to prioritise my training and uni work and feel it could be a hard year,I keep saying to myself that its just one more year and I’m done!
The Isle of Wight triathlon has been one of those races that I have always wanted to win, due to it being my local race. In the past I had never won the race but always finished close. This year the pressure was on to win it, so I borrowed as many things as I could to save time. This consisted of Martin Piper’s aero helmet and Nina French’s zipp disc. The bike felt awesome so a big thank you to them!!
The race distances are weird. They are a 600m swim, a 35km bike ride and a 7.5km run. The race went well with a fast swim time of 7.14, only a second slower than last year, which i was vey pleased with as I had laid off the swimming in the summer so as to concentrate on my running and biking.
Off I went on the bike with the amazing noise made by the disc wheel constantly pushing me on. I pushed the bike hard, and really worked the hills as I knew it was my strong point on this course. During the last bit of the bike Oliver Milk took me like I was standing still which cut me deep mentally. I thought to myself just keep him in sight and I’ll do my best to run him down. Coming off the bike I felt awesome and took the first 1k steady to get into it, soon I was on Oliver’s shoulder and then pushed on and just never looked back and hope for the best. It turned out to be a great race and I was glad to finally win my local race.
