The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves

Be warned, some self-congratulation is unavoidable here today!  Right, that's my stall set out, now I can get on with telling you about the race.  This swim run was the last in the winter season run by fun2tri, so I'd decided to give the longer distance a go as a good pre-season race.  When I applied for the race I was hoping for a positive result from it to send me towards my first tri of the year in a good frame of mind.  Bearing in mind the fact that my training has been going pretty well, I was hoping that I might realise this when it came to race day.  On the o