{"id":10542,"date":"2012-07-10T09:19:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T08:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2012-07-10T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T08:19:27","slug":"bristol-harbourside-triathlon-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/bristol-harbourside-triathlon-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Harbourside Triathlon Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m racing again this weekend in the Sprint Distance Bristol Harbourside Triathlon.<\/p>\n<p>This was the race that first got me\u00a0interested\u00a0in the whole Age-Group World Championship thing. I wanted to do a race in or around Bristol again this year so that Brad, Mike and possibly Jay could join in again, but having done the <a title=\"Wotton Triathlon 2011 - Race Report\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/wotton-triathlon-2011-race-report\/\">Wotton Triathlon<\/a> for two years in a row we wanted to do a different one. We therefore signed up for the Bristol Harbourside Triathlon. As we did so, I noticed that it was a qualifier for the ITU Age-Group World Championships so looked into what that meant.<\/p>\n<p>I quite liked the idea of possibly qualifying for Team GB so paid the money and registered to qualify. Then, rather than put all my eggs into one basket I signed up for the Big Cow triathlon as well which was another qualifying event. That meant I had two shots at qualifying this year, one at Big Cow and another at what I had expected to be the main race of the season in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>As it happened, I surprised myself with a <a title=\"Big Cow Triathlon 2012 - Race Report\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/big-cow-triathlon-race-report\/\">very quick time in the Big Cow Triathlon<\/a> back in May, managed to get the fastest qualifying time there and therefore no longer need to qualify in Bristol. I&#8217;m still going to do the race in Bristol, but it is no longer an &#8216;A&#8217; priority race and will in effect just be a training session for me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d still like to do well of course and I&#8217;d quite like to put in a time that would have been a qualifying time, just to prove that my time at Big Cow wasn&#8217;t a one-off.<\/p>\n<p>Training has been going well, but I haven&#8217;t been preparing for a race. Within my <a title=\"Periodised Training Plan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/periodised-training-plan\/\">periodised training plan<\/a> I&#8217;m back to Base Level training at the moment so have done no speed work and won&#8217;t really be tapering for the race either. I&#8217;m not feeling very fast at the moment and that hasn&#8217;t been helped by the fact that Anna&#8217;s Mum has been her for 10 days, baking cakes and pies all the time &#8211; It would be rude not to eat them now\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t it!<\/p>\n<p>So, those are my excuses for the weekend so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s just a training day not a race<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t done any race preparation or speed work, just base level training<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m too fat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No doubt I&#8217;ll add to the list in the next few days and will have some sort of major disaster on Saturday &#8211; That&#8217;s what normally happens anyway. I do of course have to make sure I beat Brad and Mike who are also racing on Sunday. They are much younger than me, but that&#8217;s just an added incentive to beat them!<\/p>\n<p>In some respects its a shame I&#8217;m not likely to be performing at my peak for this race as it should be a fast course and I reckon I could get myself closer to the hour mark on it, but not this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to all the other competitors, lets hope it all goes well and that the weather is on our side too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m racing again this weekend in the Sprint Distance Bristol Harbourside Triathlon. This was the race that first got me\u00a0interested\u00a0in the whole Age-Group World Championship thing. 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