This is far from the race report I thought I’d be writing but as unfortunate as it is that’s racing for you and you have to take the good with the bad!
I made my way up to Yeppoon for my first serious crack at professional long distance racing, Ironman 70.3 style. All my training has been geared around this longer style of racing and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t take a massive amount of confidence into this race but at the same time knew I was stepping into the unknown over the 1.9km of swimming, 90km of cycling and 21.1km of running with some very seasoned professionals lining up alongside me.
After close to nine hours of travelling I arrived at the resort and was very happy to put the car in the car-park and get out of it! And always being able to count on dad to look...
