MacTri Club Champs and the NSW Club Champs

I have just received the pre-race briefing for this Saturday's NSW Club Championships (1k/30k/8k).
This will be my first open water swim under race conditions in years. It will also be my first race in the wetty.

... Just doing some research on the ride leg for this Saturday... Thank goodness for Google - Street View ;-)

I have had to modify the training plan again this week to cater for this weekend. I was due to do a 32km interval run today (Wednesday) but I don't want to smash my self too much before the weekend.
Last night's strength training at the gym concentrated on the smaller muscles in the shoulder and back. My core was still fairly tired from the weekend.

The following weekend (13th of April) there is another club race (I think). I'll have to get back into the big training after this weekend rather than saving myself for the smaller races. I'll start treating them like mini "brick" sessions as part of a larger day of suffering. This means my club race times may drop a little bit.

Macarthur Triathlon Club Championships (Tri Series Round 7)

The official results from the MacTri Club Championships haven't been posted yet however going by the Garmin, my time was sub one hour for the 500/20/4 on the MacTri club course which is great!

I wore the new MacTri tri-suit for the first time in a swim. I really felt the drag of the suit in the water and forgot to hit the button as soon as I got out of the water but it looks like my swim time was about the same or a fraction faster than last time when I was using togs. That would suggest I am getting faster over that distance. I was out in front out of the 4 guys in my lane until I got a toe cramp at around 150m. I wasn't very comfortable.
I had the Garmin on my right hand to stop it getting bashed against the lane rope during the swim-stampede. I guess I am just used to having a watch on the left.
As I mentioned earlier, I could feel the drag added by wearing the tri-suit in lieu of togs. Aside from this the suit performed well during the ride and run. I just have to get used to it in the water.

The bike leg was a lot faster than last time (Round 6 on the 9th of March) too. The average speed was up from 35.3kph to 38.5kph.

The run leg was better too. 4:05 per kilometre pace. In Round 6 the run pace was 4:12 per km. Going to have to try and crack the 4 minute per km mark on that 4km course as a goal!

:Pat