Race Preview - Inverurie Sprint Triathlon

Here is my race report from 2014.

And here are my results from previous attempts at this race. 

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Swim	15:44	14:11	14:01	13:21	13:08
Bike	01:05:06*	01:09:29	01:05:36	Cancelled**	00:58:59
Run	20:24	21:19	22:24	20:58	19:43
Total (approx)	01:41:14	01:44:59	01:42:01	00:34:19	01:35:14
*Short bike **Rain

Inverurie is effectively my home race as I train in that pool every week and the ride is built entirely out of sections that I must ride 3 or 4 times a year. 


I should have a good chance of beating my 750m swim target of 12:30 and set a new 750m swim PB in the process. The pool conditions are better than Peterhead where I only missed out by 5 seconds. I also have 11 weeks more summer training behind me. 

The bike course is not my favourite. It has some fast sections, but it also has some climbing and some of the descents are a bit too technical for me to really attack them on the TT bike. I have taken big chunks of time off it in the past, and the weather last year was not great for setting a fast time so it should be an easily beatable target if the weather is anything less than torrential. The current forecast is dry, cloudy, light breeze but when I checked earlier in the week it was lightning and 40mph winds.

The run I don't actually expect to beat my previous times. Anything around the 20 minute mark would be a decent run. 

So my basic target is just to beat my 1:35 from last year, and also to set faster swim and bike splits. The stretch swim target is 12:30 but I maybe have a better shot of that at Westhill in a couple of weeks so I won't be upset if I am somewhere just under 13. 

Last year I was 12th overall. It would be good to get in the top-10, but that is entirely dependent on who turns up.