Stuart Hayes Blog: A Win In Windsor!
I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel after having my wisdom tooth out two says prior to Windsor but as I had missed some training My coach thought it would be best to try to get another hard hit out before I departed to go to the USA for Washington and Des Monies world cups over the next two weeks.
So I started and felt OK pushing the swim out pretty hard at the front with a small pack of guys. We came out together and there were about 5-6 of us. One of those was Mark Jenkins who hadn’t raced for 3 years so was great to see him back and up there with us in the swim. Mark actually pushed hard with me on the bike but it was about half way where we were caught by some of the runners including the British steeple chaser Adam Bowden. Every one is talking about how fast he runs so although at the time I didn’t even know it was him I was trying to concentrate on my own race.
It was at the last roundabout on the bike I decided to try to get a small break so I could get into transition first. I went onto the run with a small gap of a few seconds and hit the hard run to get a gap. at the 3k mark I had 20 sec on Adam Bowden and held it until the finish. I felt pretty strong and was pleased with my result as I have never won Windsor triathlon before.
Jodie Stimpson coached by Team Dillon (Michelle) also won and broke the record so I was really happy for her and that Michelle is doing such a good job with us and making us run so fast.
My next race is Washington world cup the Des Monies world cup a week later.
Happy training everyone.
Full results of the Nokia Windsor Triathlon can be found here
The event will be broadcast on Channel 4 (provisionally scheduled on 4th July at 8am) Check it out.