British Elite Championships

The morning after the day before- yesterday was the British Olympic Distance Elite Championships and it ended with me DNF when my saddle came loose on my bike which is acombination of bad luck and my own fault.

The race started of well enough with only a few smacks given out and received during the swim and I left the water in the first pack and after a few k`s on the bike I was sitting in the lead pack of 6 - the highlight of the race for me. However from there on in it was all downhill with me struggling to find a rhythm and I ended up getting dropped from the pack after getting a technical section completely wrong.

It was then going round the next left hander that my saddle went from a horizontal to an almost vertical position which led to the end of my race- to be fair I could of carried on by standing for the rest of the bike but mentally it was the end of me.

Moving on my 6k swim in the pool this morning was a mixture of steady swimming whilst I mentally beat myself up followed by erratic max pace swimming when I got overly angry with what happened. This occurred for the entire 90mins I was in the water. I`m sure my run this afternoon will follow a similar trend. Sports a cruel thing..... at the end of the day there is only one winner.