Before stepping into the rain this morning I knew it was a 50/50 chance of me getting to the finish line in one piece, or in this case, with my hip functioning correctly.
It’s no secret that hip issues plague this sport and from time to time I’m one that has a hip problem. A few days ago while picking up my bike I felt a little twinge and knew right away that I was going to struggle unless I had it looked at – which I did. Fast forward a few days and I had another physio attempt yesterday to sort it out which I was not entirely sure was going to be the fix I needed. Today showed that I was correct in my thinking. Needless to say I wanted to solider on and see how far I could go.
Entering into T1 in the large pack of 8 with Josh ahead by about 1:30 minutes and feeling really good. Out on the bike I wasn’t getting comfortable and truth be told the weather was eating into me kilometre by kilometre. Looking down at my Garmin and seeing how far was left and how bad I was now feeling I believe that exiting the race following the end of lap one was in my best interest.
A huge congrats to Josh Amberger and Stickys for hard fought race due to challenging conditions.
I can’t wait to get back here and give it another crack.
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U will kill it next time mate
Great work post kona 🙂
keep going buddy
Bad luck. After Kona and a marathon in recent weeks you’ve got a reasonable excuse!!!
Use this experience as a training run mate for better things to come
After the rain comes the sunshine Tim. Bigger things to come
Bad luck buddy. Hope the hip injury doesn’t set you any further back.
Great honest – Hope you bounce back quickly!
After kona the other stuff is irrelevant, you’re the real deal on the big stage.
Smuts?
Still a champion
good on you for turning up and giving it a go- me hamilton island to watch their sprint tri( courtney atkison had good race) and i raced the 2km ocean swim at whitehaven on sunday,
Hope you recover well Tim, you did well to even step onto the start line, can’t wait to see you back in 2015!!