A good weekend all round

Now that was a nice weekend for the tiger angel / gnome household. I ran the last of the Striders' 10k series for the year, while TA had her first club triathlon out at Penriff (at 500m/20k/5k, a nice lead in to the Nepean Tri in two weeks time). Yep, TA has finally gone and joined a tri club after all these years :-)

I felt pretty good about the 10k on Saturday morning; not expecting a pb (not on those hills), but hoping to get within a bull's bellow of it. Hey presto, that's exactly what I did, running 41:10 - a 40 sec course pb and only 12 sec away from my previously-unassailable North Head pb. Cool!

Tiger angel, on the other hand, felt much more nervous about her return to tris, but then it just wouldn't be my beloved without a few pre-race nerves :-). As ever, she had nothing to be worried about, not only finishing minutes faster than the last one she did eight months ago, but improving in every discipline too. Transitions were slick; the legs were smooth; good times to continue...

I battled a flat battery in my camera to record as much of the event as possible. One photo was absolutely brilliant - perfectly composed, great angle, showing a powerful TA cresting a hill - except that it was carefully focussed on the trees in the distant background...

Ah well. This was the best I could manage.

Gnome