Warrnambool foreshore triathlon winner Will Verhoef

Port Fairy athlete Will Verhoef speaks after winning the 2025 Warrnambool foreshore triathlon.

Transcript

00:00Alright Will, congratulations mate, first to cross the line in the Foreshore Triathlon.

00:04How does it feel?

00:05Yeah, pretty good.

00:06It's definitely hard out there.

00:07The other dude, he was running me down so I had to kind of keep going, my legs are paying

00:13for it now.

00:14What are the conditions out there, it feels pretty windy.

00:17Yeah, really windy.

00:18The course suited me, it's not a road bike so it's more technical and windy, yeah.

00:24The swim was pretty rough as well.

00:26And you've had a pretty busy weekend, what were you up to yesterday?

00:29Ah yeah, I had the fork anvil yesterday, average like about 46km an hour, ended up

00:356th out of the scratch bunch coming through.

00:39Yeah, wasn't too bad.

00:41First 25 under male South West rider.

00:46Yeah.

00:47And what made you back out today and do this?

00:49Um, that's a good question.

00:52It must have been, were you feeling it in the legs out there?

00:55Yeah, especially on the run, I was starting to get a bit sore.

01:00Yeah.

01:01And were you always planning on doing this or was it a last minute decision?

01:04I was always planning on it but I was kind of regretting the thought last night when

01:08I had to get up at 6.

01:10Yeah.

01:11And a triathlon is something you've been doing for a while or?

01:14Um, yeah, a couple of years.

01:17Just doing the local ones, yeah.

01:19And what's coming up for you, you got some races coming up in the cycling world?

01:23Yeah, got my next big race to be Bright in about 8 weeks, it's one of the junior tours.

01:30Looking forward to that?

01:31Yeah, should be good.

01:32Sounds good, well good luck for that.

01:34Yeah, cheers.