My Personal Project - Tim Hornsey

My Name is Tim Hornsey and My Personal Project is on the training and participation in a Triathlon. At first, I started another project (building an electric bicycle with recycled materials) but quickly realised that it really did not interest me all that much.

I decided I needed to do something I enjoy. but this also had to be a challenge or something new for me. Over the past several months I have been hard at work on My Personal Project, this has been a very enjoyable process. The Project has pushed me to do things I wasn’t sure I could do, and this made me realise the parts I wasn’t looking forward to weren’t as bad as I thought they would be.

I have joined the Somerset Triathlon group to help me with my training and to teach me how to do things. I have kept a booklet on my ups and downs and what to work on. Running I enjoy, but I never had ridden a road bike. Those tyres are so skinny and made me nervous at first and don’t get me started on the clipping on and off. Transitions need some technique to it as well. Coach Glauber has been great in supporting my development and pushed me all the way.

I have participated in two triathlons and finished fourth in the Caloundra triathlon and third in the Mooloolaba triathlon. I really enjoyed both triathlons and was very excited to be able to participate in big events like this. I am good at the running part, but I must work on the transitions and cycle leg of the race. This also requires me to plan for my races a bit better (where to spend energy and where to save it).

Unfortunately, the Mooloolaba race was the last triathlon before Covid-19 restrictions, which meant my original goal of the completion of the Gold Coast triathlon did not work out. I have kept up some training, but it is hard without the doing it together on a regular basis with my friends.

I have realised a love training with my teammates but also enjoy racing against them as well. Here are some photos below of me before my Mooloolaba triathlon during the triathlon and after the triathlon with both my racing numbers and a medal from the Mooloolaba triathlon.