After getting up to some rather dreary weather, I drove to the Macron stadium (and T2) to catch the coach to the start line at Pennington Flash. The coach left a lot later than it was supposed to and by the time I got to T1 I only had about 30 minutes to fix up the bike, get changed and be ready to race. It was raining heavily and none of the gels would stick to the bike, and there was nowhere to fill my water bottles up. Not a good start. Fortunately one kind soul gave me the remainder of his bottle of water which allowed me to fill up at least some of the way.
