Las Vegas Race Report
The days leading up to the IM 70.3 World Champs I felt pretty wretched. The legs ached on every ride and run, and I felt slow and uncoordinated when swimming. From the moment I arrived, I was thinking that this was a bad idea, and wanted to leave. But despite this, I remained focussed on the fact that this was just another hard training session and the result was not that important in the bigger scheme. Still, I never plan on doing a race to make a total fool of myself, and with the world’s top 70.3 distance athletes all gathered to do battle in Las Vegas, I was still determined to do the best I could.
Once again, the non-wetsuit swim suited me perfectly. The swim was uneventful and I comfortably swam in the back of the lead bunch avoiding the punches and kicks that is normally associated with 23 other bodies in close proximity thrashing their arms and legs. The deficit at the end of the swim was only 1m30 to ace swimmer Andy Potts, and only 30sec separated the next two dozen athletes.
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