Race preview - Turriff Triathlon

Having beaten my previous best at Knockburn Duathlon I was also looking to take a chunk of time off my previous Turriff performances as well. This would tick off one of my new targets for Q2.

I have done Turriff twice before.

2011 the weather was too dangerous to bike so they turned it into an Aquathon. 

In 2012 I did:

Split Name	Race Time	Leg Time	Pos	Cat Pos	Gen Pos
Swim	00:16:10	00:16:10	49	26	41
T1	00:16:38	00:00:27	10	8	10
Cycle	01:05:54	00:49:16	66	28	58
T2	01:06:51	00:00:57	66	27	53
Run	01:26:31	00:19:39	43	22	37

I didn't do a race report after last year's race. But pretty sure it was a terrible race. I remember I was really struggling to even go to the race briefing and was having panic problems round most of the race.

So basically anything under 1:26 this time out and I would be happy but looking at the results from 2012 there were a load of beatable people all the way down at 1:20 and even a couple I should be racing close to at 1:17 and 1:15. 

I expect to swim about a minute faster, maybe more depending on who else is in my lane, but since Monday's time trial I think I might have declared too slow a swim time and I might get held up by slower people in the pool. Rather than fighting traffic I may just coast the swim so I can push on the bike. The official swim time includes a long run to transition but I should still go way inside 16.

I should ride quite a bit quicker. Maybe as much as 5 or 6 minutes if things go really well. 

The run I would be happy to put in the same time as last year. My fitness level is about the same, but my speed is going to struggle, this might balance out against the panic problems I was having last year. Anywhere near 20 minutes for the run and I will be pretty happy.