We are not dead!

Well, we did it.

All 3 of us completed the Ilkley Triathlon without puncturing, crashing or falling into a skip. In some cases, by only a narrow margin, but we did it regardless.

I managed to get round in 1:11.18, which I have to be happy with really. Slightly annoyed that if I'd gone 19 seconds faster, I could say it was 1:10, but not bad for a first effort.

Splits: swim 10:25 (v.happy, might have been sub-10 for the swim itself), bike 37:08 (not terrible, but not the best, this is probably where I could have made an odd minute up), run 23:45 (good, especially if this includes T2, which I think it might have done, and the rather large detour to get out onto the road).

The only calamity I suffered was forgetting to get my socks out of my bag before the race, causing me large amounts of confusion, and forcing me to shout incomprehensibly at Nom, who was unfortunate enough to be in transition at the time. Thus, the new slogan of Having A Tri is "Aaaargh, socks!"

PS. it hurts.