Outlaw Half Holkham 2023 // British Middle Distance Champs Triathlon!

In today's video I take you through my race experience at Outlaw Half Holkham triathlon, the British Middle Distance Champs. My first third half ironman distance triathlon, I had some good and some bad takeaways and lots of lessons learned!
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[@adventuresaverageguy]

Great video and results, congrats! That run course was a beast, destroyed me for sure. Was my first 70.3 having progressed through Sprint to Olympic in the past couple of years. Looking forward to the next one though!

[@Triathlon_Cabbie]

Great performance Lewis. I had similar problems with weeing too much on the bike in a race earlier this year and found it down to drinking too much the days before the event.
Think Holkham is a more tougher than people give it credit for especially on the run.

[@krilin84]

Congrats on another great result! Happy to hear you were able to make progress on the bike! I'm by no means an expert, but I've read up a bit on hydration, and it seems that if you need to pee a lot it could be because you're running low on electrolytes and the body therefore can't hold fluid (or you'd dilute your blood/sodium balance too much). There's good content on it here on yt by nutrition triathlon and also a channel called Saturday morning. I've started supplementing with electrolyte tabs this summer - like in pretty much all the water I drink (a 500mg tab per 0,5L) and it's a noticeable difference in how often I need to pee, and it also seems to reduce the amounts of headaches I get. Best wishes

[@LewisFordham]

Thanks for that comment dude, really appreciate it! I have been using Precision Hydrations 1000mg electrolyte tabs in the bottles so I think (I’m not 100% sure!) that my electrolytes are okay, I do have a pretty weak bladder as well which doesn’t help haha, I’ll have to have another look into it all and take a look at Nutrition Triathlon on RUclips as you mention and figure it out. Thanks again!

[@Triathlon_Cabbie]

+1 for this.

[@kemuelrapisora2920]

Nice video, I'm learning a lot from this kind of stuff. I'm a newbie in triathlon and this helps a lot. Thank you and Congrats !

[@LewisFordham]

Thanks so much! Really nice to hear some people can learn from my mistakes haha, good luck in your triathlon journey! 💪🏼

[@TriathlonDan]

Brilliant performance Lewis, it sounds like you're learning so much already, can't wait to see how you're going in your next few races! Good to hear you got a decent breakfast down you :D

[@LewisFordham]

Thanks so much dude, really appreciate it! 👊🏼 I think there’s still some learning to be done but definitely going in the right direction, and a good breakfast definitely does help haha!