Racing the British Super Series Performance Assessment’s was my only race this month before building into a bigger racing block through May and June.
With some good training in the couple weeks between Quarteira EJC and PA’s I was feeling in good shape ahead of the race weekend. Unfortunately a way below par 400 TT on the Saturday left me with a lot of work to do, swimming a couple seconds slower than last year despite big improvements in my swim fitness.
With the bike-run on Sunday being short, just 10km bike-3km run, I knew I had a lot of work to do but with some hard power early into the bike I found a decent group of 3 of us forming into the end of lap 1/3. Catching more positions was helpful but with a bigger front pack and second pack it was going to be more difficult in a smaller chase and after a bigger early effort. I’d moved up from outside the top 50 though to around top 30 heading into T2 and was ready to run well.
Off the bike I could then start picking people off and moved my way up to top 20 by the last lap. With a 10s+ gap then to close and no-one between I pulled back good time on lap 3 of 3 of the run and moved myself to P13 with a strong sprint to gain 2 more places in the final 200m, taking the 3rd fastest run split too.
This may be my best result so far at the Performance Assessment’s which is positive and I look forward to racing at the next round of the British Triathlon Super Series in Llanelli in the Tier 1 Junior/Senior race in 2 weekends time. But first before then I will be racing XTERRA Weston Park this weekend.
With some good training progress, overall fitness and general improvements across all disciplines I’m looking forward to seeing what I can do across a mix of national and international racing both road and off-road coming up in the next few months.
Thanks to Pedal Potential for the ongoing support too.
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