The 'no bike' and 'no swim' BRW Triathlon

8.00am, one hour, 12km, Mrs Macquarie's Chair

A late start and an easy warm up through Woolloomooloo to the Domain. Suddenly people everywhere and I remembered a few weeks ago Mr Lulu talking of the BRW triathlon. Today was the day.

So I picked a path between race marshalls near the Art Gallery and I was suddenly on the course and in the mix wearing my six foot track singlet. The field was very spread out so having done a nice warm up I picked up the pace and had tremendous fun weaving through the field. Kit would say it was good for my ego ;-) . Suddenly the six foot track recovery runs were over and game on, I was probably moving at around 4 min/km pace. There was a mixture of runners in tri gear and more than a few weekend warriors with large beer guts spilling out between tight triathlon tops and bike shorts. I bet they hadn't been on Lulu's diet.

I ran to the finish line and pulled out just before the line having done half of the course. I ran around the finishing area and found the start line. The triathlon was starting in waves so I rejoined the course after the start line to do a full loop of the 4km course with a new pack of runners. I was enjoying the race pace so I thought I'd run out the hour around the Domain. I started another lap. On the second full lap I bumped into Presto from Sean's squad and did a lap with him. Had a quick chat to Spud after finding the Gatorade drinks stand at the finish. I was still 20 minutes short of the one hour run, so I started a third lap. After a bit more overtaking I heard some person running up to me from behind, I slowed down to let this guy catch me. I checked him out and then I poured it on for 2km to finish off a total of three laps.

There was a nice bit of leg strength there for the surges and it was a good work out doing my first pace work since six foot track. I haven't had this much fun for a long time.