Last week, I finally did a triathlon in 2020. With British Triathlon’s new social distance guidelines in place, Evolve became one of the first event organisers to stage an event in 2020 (maybe even the first) with their standard and middle distance event.
Organisation was good. There was quite a queue to get in using the drive-through registration, but that is understandable given the COVID-19 requirements. Other than this causing a slight delay to the start, everything went very smoothly for us as athletes.
As it was a quarter, rather than a standard distance, the distances were 1,000-metre swim, 47 km bike and 10 km run.
My splits were:
| Section | Time |
|---|---|
| Swim | 26:27 |
| T1 | 2:26 |
| Bike | 1:37:48 |
| T2 | 3:38 |
| Run | 50:50 |
With a total time of:
3:01:09
I made a conscious decision at the start of the run that I wanted to enjoy it rather than try to push for sub-three-hours. I did the same race in 2018 and finished in 2:57:40, but I think the swim and bike course were slightly longer this time.
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