TICKING the box for one of her major goals while working towards another - Hollee Simons covered the sort of kilometres that make you tired just thinking about it on the weekend.
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Simons is currently in training for her first full Ironman - June's Cairns Ironman - which involves a 3.8 kilometre swim, 180km cycle and 42.2km run.
It meant that after a 5km training swim on Friday morning she did a 131.5km ride Saturday which included the leg-burning Turondale Road Climb plus a 16.29km run on Sunday.
But on Sunday morning she was in race mode as she took out the Bathurst Wallabies Triathlon Club's annual Dave Scott/Dave Carroll Memorial. That involved a 300 metres swim, 16km cycle and 2.5km run.
"We had a fairly hard day [training] yesterday, all part of it, so I'm really happy to be able to back that up today," Simons said.
"I was definitely hurting and it was cold out there as well - I couldn't feel my feet, couldn't feel my hands and trying to get running shoes on when you can't even feel your feet, that was nearly the hardest part I think.
"Cairns is 10 weeks to go now so it's getting quite real, but I'm really excited."
The memorial triathlon is one Simons had targeted and it showed as the talented triathlete led the entire course.
She was first out of the water then increased her lead with a 25:54 cycle leg. Simons finished off with a 11:06 run to win by more than three minutes in 43:31.
"This is a pretty important one so I'm glad to take home the trophy again. It's a important race to the club and everyone as well, so I'm really happy," she said.
"This is the second time I've won it, we obviously didn't race last year - COVID won that one. No matter what is happening with the training or no matter what is happening otherwise I always try and make sure to get this one in and it's a highlight race for the club as well."
While Simons had featured in the memorial race in the past, two triathlon newcomers joined her in the top three.
Having found plenty of success in CrossFit, both Kerry Maloney and Ash Corby have impressed since taking up triathlon.
Maloney placed second in 46:44 while Corby produced a blistering run - her 10:20 the fastest of the 17 female competitors and third quickest outright - to snare third in 48:58.
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