IM Melbourne ...

IM Melbourne was my first race back in 8 months and it was certainly a good way to clean out the cobwebs!!

With a stella field that included an IM world champion, several Ironman winners and most of the girls ranked in the top 10 in the world!

I dont want to bore you with a detailed review of how the race panned out, as most have probably read that it was certainly not how any one expected!

To give you a quick rundown:

I was very happy with my swim exciting in 2nd less than a minute behind lead female Rachael Joyce and feeling great and faster than I have ever felt!

Onto the bike and staying honest to myself I rode hard for pretty much 5 hours. Unfortunately losing way too much time to the two leaders and several girls gaining on me from behind. I came off the bike in 3rd with Jo Lawn and another European.

The first part of the run I felt great and went through the 10 km in under 40 min. Feeling good but my feet slightly sore, I pushed on trying to hold pace.

By 15km i had lost 2-3 min and went through in just over an hour! I was holding down 4th place until half way, where I was passed by a flying Rinny as I bent over to try and undo my exremely tight shoe laces!!

By then my feet were numb and I felt like I couldn't even run properly, but couldn't manage to get the elastic tied knots undone to loosen them as my hand were so cold!

I kept running my feet in a lot of pain by now and not a lot I could do! I ended up 6th behind some amazing girls, who were better on the day.

Obviously I am very disappointed, but I will take confidence from a great swim and alot of hard training done, and more to come.

I cant wait to finish my week off and get back into it, knowing I have such great fitness behind me and wanting to get to the USA and start my season over there!

Thanks for all the messages and thoughts, it's only going to get better and I am 1 million percent sure about this!

My next blog will be from the USA!!...CANT WAIT!!