There is no doubt that we can all learn from our failures and use them to motivate us toward future successes but let’s face it, it is much more fun to succeed in the first place. Finding victories within our perceived defeats is one way that we can ensure that we remain positive and do not become frustrated with the process and the amount of time that it takes to get to where we are trying to go.

Transitions are often under appreciated as a place to save a lot of time during a triathlon. I review the importance of why you should rethink your transitions and give insights as to what to consider to go faster in T1 & T2

I even told her that’s not accurate. Surely there is someone who is going to finish in a moment who will bump me down. and then, as we watched, someone did finish…below me in fourth. It began to dawn on me that I had finished THIRD! I quickly scrolled backwards through the results timeline to see how I had come off the bike in 3rd. The man ahead of me in second had blown up on the run and DNF’d. Another guy had passed me but all along, there I was, solidly in third pretty much right through the run. My friend in the Honduras kit WAS in my AG. He had passed me early but I passed him late and he ended in 4th. The whole thing was surreal.

I was absolutely gutted, again. Despite having had a really good day, all I could think about was all the places I could have been one second faster.

Training your nutrition is just as important as everything else you train. Practice with different kinds of nutrition so that you know exactly what works and then you won’t be surprised on race day.