Just under a week later, and we were heading to Fishguard to meet up with Gary to take part in what would be my longest event to date, a middle distance triathlon, or half-Ironman distance. In the same event, a sprint triathlon (750m swim, 20km cycle, 5km run) was taking place and B had entered this as her first ever triathlon! Once again Mam and Dad had travelled the distance to support us and we spent Friday evening eating our pre-race meal with them. The Saturday start time was reasonable (11am), although we were ready to go well before then! We checked into transition and tried to kill time before suiting up and heading to the bay where the race would begin.