WTF is a trestle challenge you might kindly inquire? Good question! :)
My interpretation is it’s basically an option to do more
running over the Olympic Distance and I figured since I could use more run
fitness anyways, might as well, right? Turns out I wasn’t the only one thinking
this way…
It seems like almost all the people who wanted more running
were up to the same no good logic. This made for a strong running field. I was
chased down by runners instead of passing them after T2. It was weird but a fun
atmosphere. The guy who was chasing me down yelled out “make me earn it!”
meaning to go faster you slow poke! ;) Luckily I was able to hold him off just
barely and finishing the last kilometre with a 4 minute per km split. Another detail I should add, of course there was a porta-potty at the final turn-a-round and I would have loved to occupy it at the time, but having a small glimpse of a guy running you down called for moments on relying on your trusty steel bladder, which worked out nicely.
A little bit of rain kinda dampened the bike portion. It
felt fast considering we only had to do two loops, I was still used to the
4-loops half iron course.
The swim also felt fast and was definitely a good first test in the wetsuit for the season.
PS - Job pursuit is still on. Little did I know, I managed to chat with someone interested in hiring marine engineers of all people at the race. It's a small world and nice to do some networking at these chilled races.
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