Saint Jean de Luz L Distance - 10 September 2016
by Louise Waters
I came to this race with absolutely no goal bar one: to finish. If I was being completely honest, I originally wanted to sign up to the Olympic distance but I missed the boat and it had sold out only a few weeks beforehand. So it seemed fate had decided for me and I was going to do my first, and possibly last (as you will read on later why), L distance triathlon which was in St Jean de Luz.
The race which consisted of a 1.9km sea swim with an Australian exit, approx. 90km bike and 21km run started at 8am with the women off 5mins before the men. As we were only 36 women, we avoided the usual arm battle and all was very calm.
I guess I was in the top third as I was approaching the end of the first lap heading towards the Australian exit and I could feel the pull of what I thought was a little wave behind me. Well, the little wave was actually a big wave that came out of nowhere. The wave broke and I got dragged under and rolled around as if I was in a washing machine.
With Hugo after the finish line
Saint Jean de Luz L Distance - 10 September 2016
by Louise Waters
I came to this race with absolutely no goal bar one: to finish. If I was being completely honest, I originally wanted to sign up to the Olympic distance but I missed the boat and it had sold out only a few weeks beforehand. So it seemed fate had decided for me and I was going to do my first, and possibly last (as you will read on later why), L distance triathlon which was in St Jean de Luz.
The race which consisted of a 1.9km sea swim with an Australian exit, approx. 90km bike and 21km run started at 8am with the women off 5mins before the men. As we were only 36 women, we avoided the usual arm battle and all was very calm.
I guess I was in the top third as I was approaching the end of the first lap heading towards the Australian exit and I could feel the pull of what I thought was a little wave behind me. Well, the little wave was actually a big wave that came out of nowhere. The wave broke and I got dragged under and rolled around as if I was in a washing machine.
With Hugo after the finish line<:>
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