SA National Championships

During this past weekend, the SA National Championships was held in East London(Buffalo City). I was hoping to have a great race, training and preparation was going good and I was also feeling good.

The swim start was fast, but I had a good position comfortably in the main pack. Just before the end of the first lap on the swim, some athletes caught a wave and I just missed it. I had to run hard back into the sea again to get onto the feet of the front pack. I managed to do so. The run up to transition was long and hard, but I was able to maintain contact with the group. T1 was not as fast as I hoped for, but it was good enough to be in the main chase pack. We worked well on the bike, rotating nicely, trying to reel in the 2 athletes which was about 30sec up the road.  Then disaster struck…  I got a puncture 3km into the cycle.

My race was over and my day ruined as I had to unfortunately pull out. One positive was the way my swim went after some difficulty in the past.

Cheers

Rudolf