The race started well despite the fact that it
was only a handful of people who I could swim with. Right after the start I
caught up with a swimmer and was able to draft until the last few hundred
yards. I exited the water in 8th position, 3 minutes back to the first big
group. It was considered a good swim for me.
The first ten minute on the bike was about to
pull myself together. As soon as I had a sip of my GSH Ignite Pro Series drink,
my body suddenly woke up and I started to push. I moved up on the bike and
entered T2 in 4th place.
The leaders, Alexander and Bretscher were more
than 5 minutes ahead but I knew I was within 1 minute back to Hadley who ran in
3rd postion. I didn’t want to go all out at the beginning of the run so I was
glad that I caught him quickly. I passed him but he didn’t fall back and
maintained a 10 sec gap between us.
My body and my legs felt good but I wasn’t
ready for him to attack me back. He increased his pace at around 9 miles and I
just couldn’t respond. Although he slowed down in the last miles, I couldn’t
catch up and he finished 34 sec ahead of me.
Overall I had a good race: a 26 min 28 sec
swim, a 2 hour 11 min bike and a 1 hour 18 min run. Compare to my last year’s
9th place I got 4th this year and my times improved significantly too.
Thanks to the useful guidelines from Ignite
Naturals, my nutrition plan worked perfectly!
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