The longest beach in Europe.. that’s where the race was held. It was over a massive weekend of triathlon with Grand Prix races being held the day before. In our race we had the second largest field in the region, around 900 competitors, the largest is the London triathlon. We had a good few pros racing making the race a good, fast, painful event!
The swim was a one lap 1500m + in a choppy sea. They have two swim courses as all people head off the same time. The start was the usual sprint, few elbows etc and then some clear water. Just stuck into the chase pack as Ben Sanson was off the front (he has the French record for 1500m-in the pool). He literally has a propellor up his whatsit! Onto the bike and this was always going to hurt.. did my all to get into the lead pack and then succeeded to get dropped up the first rise. The second pack came past and jumped onto that and we then caught the lead pack again. After the first of two laps, 3 guys broke away and the rest of the pack stayed as is, avoiding getting caught by the huge 3rd pack. Onto the run and this was a fast and furious two lap effort. I ended up getting 10th, outsprinted by Ben Sanson by 3 hundredths of a second- after 2hrs!!! The pain is evident in the pic!! All in all an eventful weekend and a good note to end the racing in France..
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