Ella's First TRYathlon

Ella entered the Weet-bix TRYathlon this year and what fun did she have! Attracting over 1500 children aged between 7-13, the focus on the TRYathlon was participation with the 75m swim, 3km bike and 500m run course based around the AIS.

Ella and I got to the arena early to ensure her bike was racked in transition well before the cut off time. Although there were lots of people, the process of checking in, numbers written on, helmet checking and bike racking all went fairly smoothly. She even had time to climb a tree!



There were many familiar faces but we were especially pleased to see Aoife who had come down from Sydney for the race. The 8 year old wave was second so we had a time kill and headed off to explore the village.

Ella's cheer squad of Andy, Katy and Grandad arrived on bikes, just as the girls had gone off to their briefing. Cath, Katy and I squeezed into the pool hoping that somehow we would spot the girls amongst the few hundred yellow hats! Waves of about 10 were set off every few minutes with the children negotiating a zig zag pattern down the pool.














Eagle eyed Cath spotted the girls! Aoife swam confidently ahead of the wave even catching up the stragglers of the previous wave. Ella did well too coming out in the middle of the pack. Dashing outside, we were too late with the girls already off on the bike course.

Ella returned first with Aoife not too far behind. It was another mad dash down to the finish line but this time we made it seeing both girls come through looking hot, exhausted but happy! I'm confident we will be back next year with Katy keen to have a go too!!