I’ve been enjoying the school holidays. Last week I came back from Australia after competing in the Surf Life Saving Trans Tasman Competition. We started with a carnival in Sydney where I won the U17 Board race. We then competed north of Sydney against a Central Coast and New South Wales Country team over a series of three carnivals.
We had an awesome time and competed against some really tough competition. I learnt heaps while I was away and got to meet other very talented people. I have now encountered some of the Australian ocean life after being severely stung by blue bottles in one of my races. My scars are slowly fading and I am now an expert on how to treat the stings. One of the girls in my team had to go to hospital after being stung.
After Sydney I flew down to Tasmania for a Triathlon. I was really gutted when I arrived in Tasmania and found out the triathlon had been changed to a duathlon due to flood waters. On top of that my bags went missing and finally turned up late the night before my race.
The duathlon was a disaster as during the bike the officials directed the athletes off the bike course at different stages of the bike laps. Some girls did 3 laps, some 3.5 laps (yep they made them do a U-turn) and some did 4. The officials then disqualified most of the field. Very frustrating to go all that way and have things occur that were completely out of our hands.
I have some important Surf Carnivals coming up over the next couple of weeks.
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