Lausanne triathlon

Well what can i say first race since March and well...The result looked good on paper, i came 2nd to round out the NZ 1,2 in both the womens and mens races, showed when i got messages from my flatmate on the good performance. Eddie Rawles, my room mate pulled out a good performance and showed he is in good form, the U/19 team is looking fierce.
Myself well i raced average. I really struggled to get going right from the start, the gun went and i got clear water almost straight away and moved across for some feet to draft off. I felt good in the water but just not able to put myself in any pain, 3rd place out of the water not bad but improvement is needed. A long run to and through transition about a 1km or more it was massive!! Welcome to European age group racing (1800 people competed today!). I pushed hard and had the fastest transition leaving 12sec down. From there the race continued in the same fashion riding strong but not able to hurt. This mixed with a crash on lap 1 led to a shocking bike split. Luckily hay bails are soft so no damage to me or the bike. Well kinda  a badly buckled rear wheel let for a lot of wasted power. Out on to the run and where those running legs went, well your guess is as good as mine. Battling the way through i managed a podium place, not bad nice prize of a day skiing, pity there's no snow
On the whole a flat day, but could be partly due to the travelling and the fact that this race was given zero preparation and importance.

Now the most important part, what can be taken and put into positives. A reasonable swim effort technique was good and i didn't lose a lot of time especially considering i had no feet to skip between. My first section of my bike was strong and for the run i may have beaten myself up about it but 2nd fastest run split on a bad day is not bad especially when it would have given me 22nd fastest in the Elite men run times.
Positive feedback from Greg Fraine when looking at the power data

Mens Elite teams race this afternoon shaping up to be an exciting one. Back to the NZ base in  Germany for a few more hard hours, will be for sure climbing into the hurt box, but hey no pain, no game.