Christened my new race bike - the Focus Izalco Chrono - with a win at the Duston Tri, a sprint race near Northampton, earlier today. The swim was entertaining - a 400m pool swim - with people swimming all over each other, but the bike and run were good fun and I felt like I was on good form, completing the swim, 20k bike and 5k run in 58.01 to win the overall women's race and my age group. There were only four men who finished ahead of me...should have run harder...
With only six weeks to go until the Worlds in Vancouver I'm keen to get in as much race practice as possible and it feels like everything is moving in the right direction.
Training has been going well, it's all getting quite intense now with turbo sessions that are killing me and treadmill sets that are more than making me sweat. Feeling stronger day by day, though, so hopefully it'll all pay off in the end.