Hi all,
Well, I did my Olympic distance London Triathlon on Sunday 2 August.  Started with much trepidation and unexpected problems with asthma in the swim.  So, despite the fact that this should have been my best leg, I ended up doing breast stroke for about half of it.  I should have listened to the advice and swum in the wetsuit in open water before hand  (though that might have scared me even more). 

The cycling leg was bliss...all the roads closed to traffic, and all the way from docklands to the Houses of Parliament.  Through the Limehouse Link tunnel, brilliant.  The run, well, it was always going to be the nightmare...I've never run 10 km before (in the end I ran/jogged, very slowly, 8 km of it and walked 2 km.).   When I saw that I had three km left I wanted to cry, at that point I knew I was going to do it.  Crossing the finish line was bliss.  My only spectator thought I'd still be on the cycle leg, so missed it!

Times:  1.5 km swim  00:51:09      40 km cycle  01:42:50   10 km run/walk./hobble  01:28:40.  Total time including transitions was 04:14:47

Would I do it again?  Yes, but I'd train more.  :)

I am fund raising for WaterAid,  in memory of two professors in my department who worked in the area of disease control, Professor Chris Curtis  and Professor Clive Davies, both of the Disease Control and Vector Biology Unit in the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (where I am the IT Support Manager) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Please help me to raise money in honour of these two excellent, much missed scientists.

Dorothy