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Wellington .kiwi tri series and Auckland ITU age group race
The time came after defending my Wanaka title to knuckle down a bit and line up another race.
My original thoughts were to shoot across the ditch for Challenge Batemans Bay in mid-March and flush the legs out a bit there.
When push came to shove though my mind really wasn't ready for another 'big' hitout and instead I opted for the safety of the .kiwi tri series just over our 'ditch' in Wellington.
I got sick all the week leading in. I'd been a borderline achololic after Wanaka, not necessarily by choice, but I'm at the 'everyone getting married' stage of life and I figured I may as well embrace it that fight it.
I managed to pull my health together enough come race morning and set out with the intention of finishing. To my surprise I felt ok, but was a little upset to learn that one of the Dutch National team members had decided to race also. We were never seperated by more than 20-30 seconds the entire race, and luckily for me i had some great running legs and was able to pull away for about a 10second margin of Victory.
A good feeling to win my first National series race and a good sign that I have some form heading in to my BIG training weeks in my build-up for my Challenge Taiwan title defense!
Next up was the ITU Auckland age group race. Thanks to the Rolling Stones postponing their tour I found myself with a free morning on my hands. It was decided that a race was well needed after some flat as a pancake triathlon form off the back of way too much drinking form.
Once again I was please to feel ok out racing, but very happy to get off the bike and be able to put out a solid run. I am just 2 weeks out from Challenge Taiwan and things haven't been lining up as well as they did last year or before Wanaka this year, BUT the weekends racing definitely gave me a much needed boost in the right direction and hopefully things will keep heading that way.
I'll post again before Taiwan and let you all know how things are going
Cheers for reading
Dylan
