Well, Cycle Challenge is done and dusted and I am one event closer to my Cameron Brown award. Bit sore - 7:47:00 on a bike will do that to you, and I won't tell you where! Most people added half an hour to their usual Taupo time because of the conditions, but I took half an hour off last year's time so that is a small positive after a hard day!
It was a pretty brutal day. It was a howling westerly gale that always seemed to be trying to knock me off my bike, but I do think it helped me up the Kuratau hill. Grant helped me up the Hatepe hill. It was hard for him to pedal slow enough to keep pace with me but it was pretty funny to have such an talented cyclist chatting away as wheezed myself to the top. For reference, Grant did 40kms of the Huka Challenge mountain bike race (before it got cancelled due to the high winds), then popped home, picked up his road bike, popped around the lake and caught me at Hatepe....all in more or less the same time it took me to get to Hatepe! And he didn't even look a little bit tired.
I've been swimming and running today and feeling not too bad at all, so I think some of this training is starting to pay off.
I have two-tone legs like a car from the 70s, my jersey tan lines are more pronounced than ever, and as my campaign manager pointed out yesterday, such white feet that I look like I am wearing white socks. But never mind. I had my first ever professional massage - quite a revelation. Just my shoulders though, in case you were wondering which body parts I had decided were in most of attention.
I have to add spur-winged plovers and black billed gulls to the list of birds that hate me.
Smooth gear changes until next time!
love
Ironmaiden
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