Saturday saw Dom racing the LITTLE BEAVER, an olympic distance tri. We cheered her off on her swim, but due to race timings, she wasn't back before I then headed for my swim start for the BEAVER (2km swim, 85km bike, 20km run). The swim was round and up and down a muddy old puddle that you could stand up in. Spent 5 mins being swum over and being bashed into before settling into a decent swim stroke. Was out of the water in 35mins which I was well chuffed with (especially after my panic attack in Dover harbour a couple of weeks ago). 
Then a long run up to the bike transition (and I mean long!), through sludgy grass and cowpats (real rural this race!). Out onto the bike where, of course, I immediately lost any advantage I had built on the swim. Felt ok apart from my usual rubbish struggle up any little hill on the course, and there was quite a long one that had to be tackled on all three laps, GOD I HATE HILLS!
Back to the castle and out onto the run, amusingly 3 laps of the castle grounds including three times to the top of the hill where the castle stands. Very funny, not....Felt rather sick by the last lap and my back was pretty seized up but finished with a PB for this distance so the effort was worth it. Dom had done really well in her race despite being undertrained and not feeling 100%, moreover she had enjoyed it which is really cool. Simon did great in his first attempt at this distance as not the easiest course to begin with....
Had a cool evening by the tents, you'd have thought the kids were in the most amazing 5* theme park/hotel complex, so happy were they climbing trees and weeing in the woods.
(Dom 3hrs 19, Chantal 6hrs 12, Simon W 6hrs 22)
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