Time certainly flys when you are having fun
and enjoying great weather. Ive already
been here for 2.5weeks, having competed in an Olympic Distance and Classic
Distance triathlon, been to a world cup final soccer party….admittedly falling asleep
and missing the end of the game, and watched the best Iron distance
race in the world – Challenge Roth.
Making the long journey in the motor home
back to Rednitzhembach (7hrs) today after the
weekends race I thought I would put the fingers to the keyboard and look back
at the last couple of races.
First up was the Karlsfelder OD Triathlon
with a longer bike thrown in for fun.
This went pretty well despite feeling a tad knackered from the long haul
flights over from New Zealand only a couple of days earlier. I came away with 2nd place and was
happy enough with this. The girl that
ran past me around half way through the run was on a mission and I barely had time to think as
she whipped by. Very impressive stuff!
I have really been trying to work on my run
over the last couple of months and I can definitely feel some improvements
happening so looking forward to testing the legs out over the longer Iron
distance again in a few weeks.
Next up was the big journey to Waren for
the Muritz Classic Distance Triathlon which is a
2km/80km/20km. I didn’t realize it was
so far away when entering but it was worth the trip. A comfy ride in the Baum Family’s new motor
home and a day of relaxing on the lake after the race made it a great
weekend. The race started at 12pm which
was a new experience for me. Getting a sleep in was
great but feeling a little sluggish sitting around all morning waiting to get
going was not so great.
The swim started off with a beach start
with the men and women together. It was
really shallow and reminded me of Challenge Wanaka a couple of years back. My hopeless duck dives ended up with me eating sand and being trampled from
behind. That aside I just seemed to have
an absolute shocker in water. We had 2x
1km laps with a wee beach run in between.
After the first lap I got a 15min call, 2nd girl. Hmm shit I better swim faster this next lap!
Not able to see anyone in front I knew the lead girl was already miles
away. Second lap done and a 33min call,
4mins down on lead girl SHIT I thought, should I just stop now! German camera men were yelling
“where you been, where you been?!” was rather embarrassing!
On to the bike and in a bit of a panic I
made a plan to go absolutely as hard as I could until I found the
lead girl. This may not of been the best
idea, as my legs were already feeling fried but I figured today was a good day to try the “go until you blow” theory.
Around 35km I caught her and was really paying for it. The wind was getting really strong and the
sun was melting me.
I survived until the end of the
bike…just...and managed to get a gap on the second girl! Right just a run to go then I
can stand still J Going round and round in my head was don’t do your usual fade on
the run and look like a staple! Am sick of being the girl who gets to the run and
cant hold it together. The run was super hot and I felt as though I was running
scared the whole time looking behind me which is stupid because one day im
definitely going to fall over or run in to something doing that. Some things never change though I guess as I always
use to get a bollocking for looking out of the rowing boat at the other crews. I managed to distance myself a little from
the girls behind at every 5km turn around.
Every aid station I was grabbing as many cups of coke and
water as i could. Even my arms and legs were
getting a load of coke. Figured it couldn’t hurt J
I was really happy to come away with 1st place as I had been really tired heading in to this race but the body still
managed to stay strong and do what was needed even though I thought I could
collapse at any minute. PAIN IS
DEFINITELY ONLY TEMPORARY. Now back to
some good training, 2 Olympic distance races to go and then the biggy Ironman Copenhagen in 4weeks.
Big thanks to the Baums for taking me in to
their home for the 4th year and being great supporters at the races.
Keegan at Vo2coaching for always being
a great support and pushing my body to what I sometimes don’t believe it can
Cycleworld for their help with Specialized
products – aero is everything!
Casey at Kinetic Health for getting my body
ready for Germany
Robbie and Stacey at Shoe Clinic Dunedin –
finally think my feet are behaving in these shoes and Aloe Up Sun and Skin Care and Nathan Performance Gear for their great products
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