I’m sat in Colombo airport on a 6 hour stop over before flying back to London. It’s been an interesting weekend, I raced the first running of the Bangkok Triathlon finishing 2nd to Reinaldo Colucci�with Ben Sanson taking the 3rd spot on the podium. You can see more details and a copy of the results on the new Team TBB website that has just gone live at http://www.teamtbb.com/

All the talk before the race was about the quality of the river water, something that lead to quite a small field. With 70,000 bht or around 1000 pounds for the win I tried not to think too much about it.�There certainly wasn’t a water quality test but once we were in� one bit or dark murky water seemed much the same as all the others I have swum in over the years, I tried to�keep my mouth shut and havent got sick yet.

Benji broke away for around 20 seconds�in the�strong current, the�chop from passing boats made it very difficult to find a rhythm. I headed out onto the bike 30 seconds up on Reinaldo who�rode like a motorbike catching me and pulling me up to within 10 seconds of Ben as we headed out onto the run. I attacked at the start and reinaldo and I dropped Benji out of transition. Come the 2km mark I realised that I was going far to hard for the 35 degree temperatures as I was passed and dropped by Reinaldo. The field wasn’t deep and the second five km became a battle of survival in the temperatures.

In the girls race Chrissie Wellington posted another really strong result winning and doipping under the hour for the 40km bike, she is going to be one to watch over the summer.

The crowd was awesome and it was really exciting to be involved in the first running of a race around such a big city. The Thai government are serious about making this a major event to rival the London Triathlon, they got the roads closed had some decent prize money and treated us like kings all weekend. The organisers have got the backing of the Thai Royal family which gives them a good chance of making the event really big in the future.

I spent Monday afternoon getting a tour of the city from two of the race organisers, all the way through my stay in Thailand the local people have been incredible, they get genuinely excited about having athletes around and go out of the way to help out, its one of the things that really stands out and has made training in Asia such a pleasure.

I’m still planning a little travel diary with some info on the places I have stayed on my trip, but that’s going to have to wait till I get back to Tavistok and get over the jet lag that I’m building up right now.