On Sport

Raced in the second ever Scorching Triathlon on Monday - good chance to see how things are going. Distance was 500m swim, 20km cycle, 5km run and splits were 10:52, 54:39, 28:41. The same distance last time had splits of 12:06, 48:25, 26:34. Given that there was more wind this time around I think those results are fairly much the same. Nice to see the swim improve so much though.
It appears the biggest problem I have is my cycling. I came out of the water roughly in the middle of the pack and then everybody passed me. I had an interesting conversation with the running coach Jim Kerr. He mentioned that I should probably work on the pull up of my pedal stroke more. I think he's right. Time to work on more technique I think.
Overall results? I wasn't the last man home but I was last in my division. Second to last in my division finished in 1:28:33 compared to my 1:34:12. Looks like I've got a lot of work to do, huh?

Last night was the first volleyball game of the season. Thanks to Mashugenah for filling in to make our team up to 6. It was a close game: we won the first set closely, then they won the next set. We won the third set and thought we could relax until they won the fourth set. Fortunately we were ahead 7-3 at end of play so we get the win - rather important for grading.