Bournemouth International Sprint Triathlon

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Welcome to my full race day experience at the Bournemouth International Sprint Triathlon! Whether you’re training for your first sprint triathlon or you’re a seasoned age group triathlete looking for motivation, this video is packed with race day insights, triathlon tips, and real footage from one of the UK’s most scenic coastal triathlons.
In this video, I break down my triathlon race strategy, show how I manage transitions (T1 & T2), and talk through key moments from the 750m swim, 20k bike, and 5k run. If you’re between 35 and 65 years old and focused on triathlon performance, training efficiency, or simply want to stay inspired, this is for you.
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Sprint triathlon beginners
Age group triathletes 35+
Triathlon training motivation
Race day preparation
Open water swim tips
Triathlon gear & nutrition ideas
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Now, good morning folks. It’s uh Sunday morning, race day. So, down here at Bournemouth. Just arrived at the uh seafront and the car park. So, nice and early. Another sort of hour or so before race time. But uh welcome back to the channel. Try to be this is the really culmination of my season. So, try to be the best and or the best for me, best I can do. And today is an international European qualifier, Team GB qualifier. And I’m going to just do my best. And if it’s good enough, it’s good enough. If it’s not, it’s not. But we can only try and you can only do your best. So, we’ll see how it goes. Right. Head up to transition and get registered and get checked in and then get everything set up. Here’s for a good day. Hope we have a good race. Well, I think I’m going the wrong way, but it’s got to be up this way somewhere. I think I can see what is the finish line. So run looks run course looks okay. I’m on it. But it still looks okay. There’s a few big rollers coming in. Few waves, but other than that, once you pass there, pretty flat. So should be a decent swim. I think once you get past those waves and coming back in be fine. So as long as it stays nice. There’s the pier in the distance, the sunrise. And I want to be up there, unfortunately. So I’m definitely going the wrong way cuz there’s the finish. So, I just got to find the way up the zigzag. Might as well check that out while I’m here. The zigzag is the uh the bit after the run. So, after the swim, sorry. And go up the zigzag to get uh to get to transition, which is up there at the top of this hill, which I’ve now got to go and climb. Didn’t really need to do that this morning. I wonder if he was parking at the top of that car park, but never mind. He’ll live and learn. Look at the finish line. See that later. That’s all set up. Ready to go. I’m just checking this morning. I’m in the wrong place. I need to get up this zigzag define that must be here registration. Try and get a register now. Pick my race done and chip sorted racing. Right. Too much admin. Registration done. Stickers on. Timing chip on. Let’s go and head into transition and try and get set up in there. Just so much sticking of things to be done. Right, we’re on the way getting into transition. Can’t film in transition. So, see you when on the other side. Sea looks okay. Sea looks fairly calmish. Uh wind’s low. Uh here’s transition. I should be able to film into transition, but not while I’m in it. So, transition is here and uh sun’s just coming up, which is nice. So, uh right, see you on the other side. Let’s hope uh this goes okay and goes to plan. Heat. Heat. London. [Music] Um quite pleased with the result overall really. Uh weather’s just starting to turn and the wind is picking up. The waves are picking up. Had a brilliant swim. Uh water was flat. I’m just going to look back through the stats and uh let you know how we got on. So, uh overall, I don’t think I’ve done enough to uh to qualify, but um I’m just looking at the stats. Here we go. So, uh where are we? Total time 1 hour 29 minutes and 10 seconds. Uh splits were quite good. Swim was brilliant. 14 minutes 39 for me. Awesome swim. Really pleased with that. Uh bike was good, 41 minutes. Felt good on that. And the run was 25 minutes 30. So a good 5k for me. So quite pleased with that. I don’t if you can really see it, but you can certainly feel the wind now. That wave has really picked up. When we did that swim an hour or so ago, it was pan flat. That’s really roughed up something way way more than the uh than the event was. So bit of a surprise. Well, we expected the weather to come in, but thank God it stayed off for just long enough to uh to make the swim comfortable. Not too bothered about the uh the bike and the run. Could have been worse, but to be honest with you, that uh that wave now it’s really uh really everybody be glad they got the swim out the way before that came in. That wind’s just picked up from across the channel and uh it’s going to get a bit windy. going to get windier all day, but who cares? Race is done and over with. So, happy with that. Still a few out on the course. Few uh aquathoners or aqua bike. Not aqua bikes obviously cuz they’ll be on their bikes, but I think these are aquathons or uh or even the uh the Olympic distance cuz they’ve had multisports today. Uh sprint, standard, aquathon, aquaike. These guys are still uh still running. So I’m they’re either either aquathons or the swam run cuz they were the last ones out the water. So the swim swim run was the last one out the water. So maybe these are just the swim runs and they got uh got 10k to do or something like that. But good for everybody. We’ll have a quick look down at the finish and then uh find a l get uh get going out. Right. Well done everybody. Hope everybody’s had a great day. The event’s been great. So, uh I just don’t know whether I’ve done enough to qualify. We will see. Okay. So, this is the zigzag. Uh this is after the swim. We the the swim came in there. You start this zigzag. So, a little bit like 10b but not as long each leg. run uphill, but it zigzags back on itself all the time. And uh say 10b is the the ramps are longer, but these are a lot shorter. But say after even after a 750 m swim, this is quite a quite a trek. And uh you can see it just switches back on itself all the time all the way up to the top. I think I’m almost at the top of the zigzag now. Just gets higher and higher. Look, for about the fourth time I’ve done this, I think today walked up here with the bike. Ran up here after the swim. Walked back up here after the finish. Stupidly walking back up again. All in the aid in the name of getting a coffee at the top is my plan. If I get there.