Time: 02:10:21

I came out of the water in an okay position but with some other strong athletes. A group of four of us were just over a minute down on Lucy Charles-Barclay but there were one or two other fast swimmers between Lucy and us. I do have this feeling that I perhaps should have been up the road with them with how strong my swim usually is.

When I started peddaling I could feel like it wasn't going to be a good bike. I just lacked something and I'm not quite sure what it was. I just really struggled on the bike which is not typical for me.

The best way I can describe it is that I just didn't have any energy. I could get to my power numbers but it was a big of a slog to get there and I found it difficult to maintain with the creeping lower on each lap.

I was desperate to quite and had all but made my mind up that I would when I got to T2. I had slipped down from 6th to 16th which should never happen!

Time: 01:09:14

I had looked for Sean in T2 to basically tell him I was pulling out and to some small extent get his "ok"...but I couldn't see him?! For some reason this made it impossible for me to throw the towel in.

Daniela Ryf was just in front of me and also having a bad day. I thought that if she can just jog this run out then I may as well too. My aim was to catch up to her and then run together to the end.

By the time I caught her I was running quite a bit faster so just carried on past her. I seemed to get over my flatness and found a rythm and kept pushing on.

In the end I actually had a solid run which was the 10th fastest overall. I also ran myself up from 15th in to 10th place which, thinking about it, is a very good result for having such a flat day!

Some lessons learned and i'm glad I was able to make the most of it and not quit.