The local BSG triathlon series started last weekend at a new race venue at Buffelspoort
in the North West
Province. We started the
day at 4am driving to the venue. Once we arrived, we headed straight out to
registration and transition. After that was done we could relax a bit and catch
up with all the athletes and friends that we haven’t seen in a while.
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Warm up was as usual with a few friends and jokes
in-between, and soon we were ready to race. I was confident that I will have a
good swim as I have been working hard in swimming training the last few weeks. This
paid off as my swim went great and I felt good all the way in the water. I
exited the swim with Wian and Jeff, Henri was in front again as usual. I had a
quick transition and quickly off on the bike leg. Wian was close on my heels
and we worked well together. But just before we caught Henri my legs just
decided to give up on me for a few minutes and I was dropped from the group. I
couldn’t believe that, cycling is normally my strongest discipline. I cycled on
my own for about 2km until Wikus caught me and then we worked well together
until the end of the bike.
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| Swim exit |
I had another fast transition from cycling to running
and felt good again on the start of the run. I knew I just had to keep trying
as hard as can to stick with Wikus. I started well keeping Wikus just ahead of
me for about 2km then he started to open up a gap. But when I hit 3km my legs
just decided to give up on me again, but I knew this will happen since I haven’t
been doing running speed work.
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| Wikus, Rudolf |
I finished 5th and I am happy with that
result. Huge congratulations to my friend Wian for winning the first race. Good luck to the athletes racing World Champs
in Auckland in two weeks’ time.
I will be racing the next event of the BSG series in a
weeks’ time.
Until then…
Cheers
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