Cameron Brown wins race2 of the Contact NZ Tri series

Cameron Brown takes out race 2 of the contact NZ Tri series

Well I started the year off in winning form taking out race 2 of the Contact Energy New Zealand Triathlon series.

The race takes place in Whangamata, a beautiful beach resort on the east coast of New Zealand. Lucky I only had to bike 2mins down the road to the race start as my wife's parents live here.

The 2 lap 1.5km swim had some great waves to body surf on, I came out 90seconds down on former World aquathon world Champion Brent Foster and tried to quickly make inroads into his and under 23 athlete Edward Rawles lead. I caught Foster at the 5km mark but did'nt catch Rawles until 30km into the 40km ride, from then on I tried to establish a lead onto the run and came of the bike with a 45sec lead.

The three lap run was half on the road and half on the beach, most of that was on hard packed sand but the last 300m of each lap had some soft sand running so the calfs got a good work out. I managed to increase my lead each lap and was able to relax and take things a little easy on lap 3, I needed too as I have the New Zealand Half Ironman Championships in 5 days time in Tauranga which will be a very tough race.