A win at Hillingdon Triathlon and a course record at Colney Heath

Harefield Lake on a good day!

1. Darren Treadaway 01:13:22
2. Steve Hyett 01:19:07
3. Justin Corcoran 01:19:57
4. David Everitt 01:20:21
5. David Knight 01:22:05

67 Finishers

Colney Heath 23rd May 22:57 (previous best 23:52 2006!)

Last Wednesday I ventured out to Colney Heath for the Tri Force midweek time trial expecting a mediocre performance having done a long ride of 4:35 followed by a 2 hour run (big day!) the previous day. So knew the legs were going to be tired. Riding out though I started to feel ok and knew that the conditions were going to be perfect as it was about 25 degrees with very little wind.

I didn't feel that I was going that well and even contemplated pulling out at the turn around. It then began to sink in who I was catching and at what time down the road, various numbers were ticking over in my head and thought I could at least be on for a respectable time.

I crossed the line with 23:27 on my watch as I had started it 30sec before the off when the man in front went. Maths not being my strongest subject I added the 30sec to my time instead of subtracting it and thought hmmm 23:57 that's respectable, it wasn't until Chris Morris who was taking the times came over and broke the news that it was 22:57 and I was shocked, so shocked that I re checked my watch and a couple of other riders! and that confirmed it, new course record 22:57!! Think now 22:30 is possible.

Hillingdon Harefield Triathlon 27th May

This was perhaps my most convincing win to date and probably technically one of my worst performances but glad to get these glitches out the way before the racing gets more serious again!

To start with it was pouring with rain as it has been all weekend. So I thought no big deal, man up get on with it and take no risks, get round in one piece.

Due to the conditions the swim was probably the most enjoyable part of the race which is unusual for me. I got clear water at the start and got off the front with one other athlete, as we approached the first buoy the lead canoeist cut inside of it, so we didn't know whether to follow or go round the buoy, obviously with hindsight the course was made up to go around the buoy. So we both stopped looked at each other the rest of the field was rapidly approaching then we got shouted at to swim around it, thank you Mr Canoeist!! We ended up finishing the swim together.

Into T1 which was the swim to run change over. This was the worst transition of my life, the wetsuit didn't come off! my legs were frozen and not doing what my brain was telling them and to top matters off I had pinned my number on the wrong way round so it was blank on the front! I faffed around with it trying to reposition it and ripped it so I now had a number hanging on by one pin. Meanwhile the Duathlon had started and my training partner Jez Cox was getting further and further up the road. The rain was still pouring down, I got to the turn around and got told off for not displaying my number correctly, so more faffing with it, I then put the boot in for the last 3k to see if I could take some time out of Jez.

Into T2 as I went to mount my bike my tri suit got snagged on the back of my saddle and it pulled the suit right into my crotch and I nearly fell off the damn thing! I eventually got settled and into my rhythm. Yes more rain to follow, just went through the motions, no silly mistakes, just a safe ride.

I hit the finish winning by just under 6 minutes. I'm sure a lot of people didnt race because of the condition's but you can only race who is there on the day and a win is a win! Afterwards it took a long time to get warm again.

So a good day for the boys Jez won the Duathlon too!