Having taken the plunge to focus on Duathlon for the first half of 2016 (if you saw me swim you would fully understand this decision) with a view to AG qualification, I had been following a training programme from Coach Yeoman (should have checked what I was letting myself in for first!). What with a few blocks of training under my belt I felt I needed to have a bit of a trial run over the race distance I was training for as I had never done the distances back to back and didn’t want the 1st qualifier in March to be my first outing overthe distances. Continue reading