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BACK IN THE GAME!

Posted: August 16, 2010 in Triathlon
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This has been one hell of a weekend and I am finally back in the game.

It all started off with one of my very best friends wedding, which truely was a legendary day.

The next morning I had planned to race in the Bedord Autoglass Olympic distance triathlon since we were kind of near by (45 minutes away).  I must have left the wedding reception around 11pm and spent the next hour and a half getting lost in Luton trying to find my way back to the hotel.  Not ideal!

Back at the hotel I finally made the last few race prepartions, set the alarm (or so I thought) and passed out.  When I woke up a was feeling surprisingly well rested, and with good reason, my alarm never went off at 4.15am and it was now 6.15am!!!!  For a few minutes I just thought there was no point even trying to make the race start, but a somewhat drunk Carli (my lovely girfriend) told me to stop fussing and get going, so I did.

I must have broken a lot of speed retrictions but made it to the race venue, sprinted about 1-2km to the registration tent, then 1-2km back to the car.  Got all my kit and made it into transition 5 minutes before it closed.  Talk about cutting it fine!!   I was seriously amazed to be in the race.

It has been 12 weeks since I crashed in IM Lanzarote, and they have not been easy ones, but I have to say I felt truely happy lined up at the start of the race today.  The gun went off and from then on I was officially loving every second out there.  🙂

Swim was solid but nothing to write home about.  Bike was very solid, although I did corner like a granny!  I had the 4th fastest bike split of the day (45 seconds off the fastest split) and if my corning skills were less granny like I think I probably would have had the fastest time, give or take a few seconds.  Happy with that.  On the run I was really just cruising.  With the trans rockies run just around the corner I did not want to push too hard.  I still clocked a 35min 30 sec 10km which was not too pedestrian.  I came in 10th overall and 3rd in my age group.  Considering it was the national championships, not a bad first race back after the crash.

Bring on the IM distance races!!!!

The Magic of Rest

Posted: August 4, 2010 in Giant, Time Trial Bikes, Training, Triathlon
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OK, I have been back training properly for a few weeks now and did a max ramp test on the 23rd July (increasing your power by 20 watts every minute).  Amazingly, my power was up, toping out at 500 watts.  Just goes to show that the forced bed rest over my accident does have some benefits.

Since then I have picked up the intensity a bit and even done a few time trials on the training bike.  Last night I managed to hold 366 watts average in the local 25mile TT.  Not a bad effort all things considered.

I am still waiting to get my TT bike back into action as it has been off getting X-Rayed.   While waiting, I have been checking out what frames are out there just incase I need to replace the current one.  Pick of the bunch would have to be the Giant Trinity Advanced SL O.  That is one fast piece of kit and it would be interesting to see what kind of difference it would make to your bike split in an Ironman, riding a bike like that??

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