My Week in Tri: 9 October

70.3 Langkawi: Full Results here

|Women: 🏊️Lemmolo exited the swim first with Gentle, Lucas and Watkinson close by. 🚴 The four leaders rode together for the whole bike finishing over 16min ahead of Simpson in 5th. 🏃 Gentle had established a 30s gap within the first 3km. This was well over 2min at 10km and almost 6min at the line. | Men: 🏊️ Similar to the ladies race, 4 men were in the front: Amberger, McDonald, Phillips and Costes. 🚴 Costes lost 1min early on after crashing, leaving Amberger, McDonald and Phillips up front. The trio finished together over 5min ahead of Costes in 4th. 🏃 Amberger trailed early on but hit the front at about 10km in and ended up winning by over 90s.

Challenge Barcelona: Full Results here

| Women: 🏊️ Buckingham and Perez-Sala finished the swim 1:20 ahead of Simmonds. 🚴 Perez-Sala dropped out at 30km (illness) leaving Buckingham in front for the whole bike. Pohle joined Buckingham nearing half-way and Simmonds caught them nearing T2. 🏃 Simmonds took the lead immediately and never looked back. | Men: 🏊️ 9 athletes finished the swim within 20s of each other including Brownlee, Royle and Keulen. 🚴 A lead group of 5 was established and, driven by Brownlee and Keulen, came into T2 with a 2:30 lead over 6th place. 🏃Brownlee lead from 1km to 10km but Keulen was always a few seconds back. Keulen made the pass just after 10km but Brownlee stuck with him. They ran the next 4km side-by-side until Keulen eventually managed to get a surge to stick and broke away.

I didn’t pick this up before the race but the distances were: 1.5km swim, 60km bike and 15km run.

World Cup Rome: Full Results here

| Women: 🏊️ The swim had some large gaps. A group of 5, led by Seregni, exited over 20s ahead. Eim, Klamer and Holland were 50s back! 🚴Vermeylen, Gautier and Mathias led for the whole bike and took a narrow 10s lead into T2. 🏃 Vermeylen lead early on to try snatch victory but eventually tired and Eim, Gomez-Goggel and Schar caught her. Eim pulled away with 500m to go. Shout out to Noelia Juan with another great result in 5th | Men: 🏊️ Strada led out a big group on the swim. West lost time in T1. 🚴 After the first lap there were 25 athletes being led mostly by Van Riel, Stornes and Henseleit. 30s back was the first chase pack with West over a minute behind. Van Riel and Pozzatti crashed into each other on the last turn. 🏃Typical of this racing, all gaps are mere seconds apart. Lehmann and Vilaca were the front runners. Vilaca made his move to take the lead but lots of jostling behind him saw another 3 athletes finish within 9s of him.