My Triathlon Journey

April 2023

April kicked off with the beginning of my triathlon season, starting with the British Triathlon Super Series Performance Assessments in Nottingham and Loughborough, before some running PB’s and a county championships.

Performance Assessments

First day of the month, on Saturday, I drove up to Nottingham Uni to do my 400m swim, in order to set a start time for Sunday’s bike-run. Now old enough to compete in the series, I was in Youth A category (15-16) yet racing Youth B, as well (17yrs) over a 400m timed swim on the Saturday and a 10km bike and 2.5km run on the Sunday. With some fast swimmers, I finished with a PB, in my second timed 400m but with a bit of catching up to do, being 59th Youth A and around 80th overall. My bike and run are stronger so was looking forward to put the effort in, having to finish top 75 Youth A to qualify for Llanelli but top 30 to get into the first Tier. My bike leg was strong and I led out a lot of the front of the group I ended up in, with only a couple others helping to take a turn, so getting to the main group, only 10 seconds ahead at one point, was quite difficult to bridge the gap to. I came off the bike having made a good amount of places, then found my rhythm on the run and began to pick off places before coming through the two lap run 24th Youth A and 41st overall. Having covid a couple weeks before wasn’t the best prep, but I was still really happy with my result and my first race in the Super Series. I recently received conformation that I qualified for the race in Llanelli on the 13th May and in Tier 1, as well, so can’t wait to race in Wales in a couple of weeks.

Sussex Road Relays.

I ran in the Sussex Road Relays with the Brighton team over the flat, 1 mile loop. I went on the 2nd leg of 3 and got us into 1st, but we were only a couple of seconds behind the leading team after the first leg. I managed to get a good gap and ran my quickest mile, in about 4.45, which was one of the quickest of the day. My team finished 1st after 3 fast legs, meaning county road relay champions after 2nd last year.

5k PB

At the end of the month, I ran in my club 5k. I ran the whole race solo but was super happy to have achieved a PB of 15.41, having turned at halfway in 8.07, going into a headwind, but cracking down and running just above 3’00″km pace over the back 2.5km to get a Sub 16 5km and a 20 second PB.

Rest of the month:

I did the Medway Duathlon, more as part of a training race but ended up going hard, racing close with my friend over the whole run-bike-run, just getting a small gap on the last run lap to win. I managed to finally get a new bike, from Moda, with some great help from them, so a another post might be on here. Thanks if you read all the way down here 🙂