20th ITU World Long Dist Champs!

Not what I was hoping for, but I think It was a solid performance after IM Florida 2 weeks ago.

I had a good swim and bike and was right in touch for a medal, but I just was not able to run fast off the bike.

More months of hard work and I will be. I feel I am getting close even if 20th isn't very impressive. If you look at the field and look at the splits, I am not far away and am prepared to work harder than the rest of them so they better be scared;)

Bella was just incredible winning in fine style. So She is now a World Champion, which is just phenomenal! She has worked so hard and thoroughly deserves this success.

We haven't seen the Times but we know we had a article in the sports section on Sat. That is really great for us and for triathlon especially Long Distance triathlon. I believe Bella has a follow up piece in the Times today.

We will be recovering a little, small training for a bit. But still doing everything right so as we can keep improving as fast as possible.

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Have a great winters training.
Stephen
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4th at Ironman Florida.

I'm happy with 4th. This is my 3rd 4th of the year in Ironman races(4th IM NZ, 4th IM Brazil, 4th IM Florida).

I'm getting closer to the podium, just some more hard work needed.

My race went kind of as planned, I had a great swim, coming out in second, then a fast transition put me in first for the first mile of the race which is always nice, but the plan was to ride a bit more sesibly so did not go with the eventual winner who came past pretty hard.

In the end I had a solid ride but lost much to much time to be in cotention for top 2.

Then I ran as planned, steady then tried to build the pace, I infact negative split the run(1:30 then 1:26) not sure if this suggests I took it to easy in the first half or got it right. Anyway I was happy to run under 3hrs(my run was 2hrs 56mins). I felt good throught the run.

So I was happy with 4th but looking for better in the future.

Bella was fantastic, she is the best I have seen her. She really dominated in the end.

Next stop World Long Dist Champs in Auz in a couple of weeks.

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Cheers
Stephen.
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