I did the standard today, 2:28:59 isn’t great at first sight but I did use the road bike and faff around in t1 putting a warm cycling jacket on that didn’t help with aerodynamics. I reckon these 2 probably cost 5-7 minutes on the bike leg. T1 was over 3 minutes as well!
The river felt cold, it was my first O\W swim since last September and I was struggling with the cold, my hands were blue! It was about 1400M and I managed 26:xx, official time was about a minute longer as there was a run to the timing mat for T1. Wasn’t totally gutted with this, a bit more practice in the open water will help and hopefully the new suit will have a bit more flexibility and not be so tight, let’s say I might have outgrown the Helix now
Bike wasn’t terrible, 1:14 for as close to 25 miles as you are likely to get, road surfaces were that coarse slow tarmac, averaged about 240W.
Run was 43:21, the first K was fairly slow running round a grassy field and then up some steps, after that it was largely on a sustrans track so not really quick but not bad. Was fairly pleased with the run after the recent injuries and lack of training.
Overall I was fairly pleased, the cold really isn’t for me, particularly the swim\bike sections, but I managed to get put the sections together.
Jeff