Sport	Triathlon
Event	Trinity Sports Sprint #6
Date	24 April 2016
Where	Germiston Lake, Johannesburg, South Africa
Distance	25.75 Km
Finishing Time	01:23:48
Race Number	741
Result	8/73
Top %	11%
Pace	3:15 m/km
Speed	18.44 km/h
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My experience at the event:

In the final triathlon of a long series (almost a year long!), I finally had the best sprint race of my life and finished an excellent 7th place overall (after cracking top 50 in the past 2 races).

Sure, probably the fact that some of the best competitors decided to step up for the final Olympic distance race (which started 1 hr before mine) helped a little, but regardless of that, I still managed to break for the  2nd time in the row my best on the course.

The races wasn't even going to start at a certain point. 20 minutes before the official start, Victoria Lake looked like this:

Zero visibility!

But luckily only 30 minutes later it cleared and the race started with this weather:

No more fog!

The water was quite cold (17 degress) and luckily we were allowed wetsuits, which as usual helped me tremendously with my swim. I got out of the water with my best time on the distance, and then proceeded to push in the cycling, with my 2nd best time on the course. The run as usual was my strongest part, and I demolished my personal as well, running a good 5km in 23.54

At the end I knew I was going to have a good result, but it was difficult to judge because the course was full of competitors doing the full triathlon or the duathlons. And it was always nice to see my football team mates taking part in the competition as well!

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