For Kate, Thorpe 3 was the second of this series she’s raced, so she was looking to take a few minutes off her time from the previous event; Jon was looking to set a swim pb as he has been racking up the kilometres in the lake. Both were disappointed with their lake performance, though perhaps not surprised – Jon zig zagged his way down the first long straight, adding metres to his swim, whilst Kate (used to swimming with the breast strokers) was disappointed that the well spread field meant she struggled to draft… but still took 1 minute off her previous swim time.

Both competitors were pleased with their bike, Kate particularly as there were only 2 minutes between hers and Jon’s times on this discipline and she was 3 minutes faster than at Thorpe 1. A steady cross country run for them both, but one which certainly showed that this is the area which both have been missing out on in recent training sessions, left them both glad they’d made the 6am start – especially as there was only 2 minutes between their finishing times!