(Winter <> Racing) and not (racing < 1hr)

Oh thats a programmer heading…

On a side note: I am kinda sad Micheal Jackson is dead. They are playing his video hits on c4 right at this moment. Its a sound track to my entire life. No matter what the rest of his life was, he was a really awesome pop  entertainer ( and this from someone who  really  doesn’t like pop that much)

Ok back to the topic at hand. Me and winter and racing don’t mix well. Me and races under 1 hr don’t really work either. So why was I there this morning to do the Duathlon. I have no idea, Jo told me to and because I am a good girl and have supreme faith in her, I did what she said

It was very frosty cold this morning and there was cloud cover so the sun didn’t get a chance to poke its head out and warm things up a bit.  I kinda warmed up, I did a lap of the track, about 30min before the start. In reality I should really have done at least a 5 min run just before the start.

When the start gun went off (umm don’t think there was actually a gun) , and the first 30 sec I was feeling awesome, ok I might have hit the accelrator a little to hard, but was feeling good. Then the icy cold air hit my lungs and my lungs shut down. They did not like the situation at all. Ok so that made me slow down a little bit, get a bit of breath in the lungs etc. So that was what the first 2 laps invloved not going so hard that I couldn’t get air in. ( had taken my inhaler 10min before the race, but didn’t help that much). The 3rd lap I had finally got a bit warmed up, I still wasn’t feeling much of the thing (actually was about to throw up) but at least I could breath.

Came into transition. (I wasn’t very organised for this race. I turned up at tranistion before the race and thought, I should have put elasic laces on the shoes. Didn’t even have aero bars on the bike). And took my time taking the shoes of (after all I had to put them back on soon, so couldn’t just throw them out). I noticed Nades had come in about 20  secs behind me. She almost past me by having a awesomly fast tranistion.

Anyway I eventually got on the bike, and phew I could relax for a bit… well kind of, I am so much more comfortable on a bike. I took my time and eventually picked of a couple of the other females competitior (yes I knew a few would still pass me on the last run… but I can pick up alot of time on that bike)

Looked down at my watch on about the 4th lap and it said 32min. I wondered if it had stopped, cause that didn’t sound right. But maybe I just read it wrong because at near end of the 5th lap it was at about 42 min. Got off my bike and my legs were like jelly. Its been about 3months since I ran of the bike and it showed. Anyway stumbled my way around the last run and finished at about 57min.

You can never take it easy in a race like this. Push the envelope the entire way. But I did kind of enjoy it. Found it was fairly well run.