Joburg City Tri

The first race of the season was the Jhb City tri at Germiston lake. I was feeling confident, and was excited to see how I would perform with a solid base. I haven't done any real speed work so that would also be interesting to see how that would affect me.

In the swim I felt good, I was swimming with Wikus throughout the 1.5km, we set a good tempo from the start and till the end. We exited the swim together and was starting the 40km TT. I enjoy doing some TT every now and then, so was looking forward to this one. We had to do 4 x 10km laps.  The first lap was fine and we felt good, but from the 2nd lap we started to catch the back markers of the race. This made us to concentrate more as we had to side other athletes now. We managed to do it successfully an got in a good bike split. I was thinking this base is really paying off and I still felt good.

I was feeling really good on the run, but got clear instructions from my coach to take it easy - so I was just ticking over the legs and finishing the race. I felt really good. I was happy with my performance and I claimed the u/23 CGT title as well.

I have a feeling this year is going to be a good year for me.

Until later

Cheers

Rudolf