Sunday 13 June, with a 7.30am kick off, Dr Craig began the Windsor Triathlon olympic distance, hoping for a new personal best. Here's how he got on...

Swim - The current in The Thames was not flowing too badly which made for good conditions in the water with a temperature of 18 degrees. The swim went relatively smoothly and completed in a time of around 25 minutes, despite having a massive cramp in a hamstring on exiting the swim. I quickly recovered to the laughs from the crowd and ran to the transition to grab the bike.

Bike - Headed out onto the road on my shiny new time trial bike to a light sprinkling of rain, which made conditions quite cool. Completed the 42 ks in 1.04hr travelling at around 38 km/h. By the end of the ride the cool conditions had made my left leg go completely to sleep and so the first part of the run was with a numb left foot.

Run - 3 laps of The Windsor castle allowed me to complete the 10km run course in 46 minutes to for a pb for the Olympic distance in 2hours 19mins. Not bad for an old codger, position 104 overall and 24th in my age group 35-39! (and 2 minutes faster thank last time... phew!)

Official timings can be found here.

Thanks to all the Putney Chiro team in helping me stay in great shape in the lead up to the event.

Here's the report from Windsor tri 2008.

Cramping out of the swim


Feeling good on the bike