Notes
Well that was some day. Got up late, 6.15, breakfast was one small rice cream can, one cup of coffee, had maybe two large glasses of water didnt go overboard, toilet stop 1 & 2 just before going out the door. Ran about 200 meters only warming up after we parked outside the council, jumped in failry close to the start line but ended up a bit further back as the elite and pushers in jumped in near the start. Megan and hayley came with, we parked in front of the council, they waited until a few minutes before the start and i tossed them my jumpers, I lost one safety pin in taking off my old blue sloppy joe, had to excuse myself and bend down to retrieve it and re attach. Rod came up then and got my attention by throwing jumpers at me :-) got off to a better start, only 20 seconds or so to the line, still a bit slow to start but I did need to warm up, so I then started weaving but didnt need to do so much as last year, started to give it a go down flora street, kept it up into the kingsway, dropped my hat outside miranda rsl, I had put it in the back of my shorts coming up to Miranda, and it just felt like it was moving around, I just reached back and grabbed at it and it fell out! rod said on target and its all downhill at the top of the hill out of miranda, then the rest was interesting got motivated by rod though so did some more hard yards, the hill near the end i did hard, the last hill rod again said one more effort I had just done it so I hung on and wow got under the magic 4 per k. Talked to the guy in front who recommended his garmin 410 instead of a standard watch! So 43:50 gun time and 43:23 net !!! Met Megan and Hayley straight after and Rod, and Mike also saw us straight away so no dramas getting away. Great result, great day smile.