okay, calling the bike course for next weekend a "murderous bike course" is a total exaggeration. It wasn't THAT bad. Well, it was bad for me, but not that bad on the whole.
I got up early, packed the car, picked up my Dad and set off out to Umupuia for a tri sim session. I'd finished a couple of goes at the swim when who should appear but Annie from the Bucklands Beach session. Awesome! I had someone to ride with. Perfecto - but I wasn't planning on riding and hadn't had a lot of fluids before or after my swim, so I wolfed a gel and set off behind Annie to tail her out and back.
I tried to chug down my drink to wash down the gel but just past the turnaround point on the bike I had the stitch from hell. It sat in my right side for about five minutes, before I tried to stretch out and then sat up on the bike. The fact that I was going up a long grindy hill didn't help, so I looked at the road just in front of my bike and pretended I was on the flat. I've only ever had one stitch on the bike before and got rid of that by going aero on my road bars, but couldn't bend that far today so sat up with my hands on the top bar. Bingo - within a minute, the stitch was gone and didn't' come back. Lesson learned - water, then gel, then more water, followed by more water. Clown!
I ran straight off the bike and did about 1.5km with no random side of ankle and foot pain. Cool - maybe it's gone now - and my legs didn't feel heavy or jelly like. Possibly because they were still in shock from the grindy hills on the bike course. Don't know for sure, guess I will find out next week at the event.
Speaking of which, I think my times will go out the window. I just want to finish this next one, I really don't give a rats backside about the time. I know the swim and T1 will be around 12 minutes, and the run will be around 28-30 minutes, so if I allow 30-35 minutes for the bike and T2 I'm back around 1hr 15-1hr 17 or so. That will be fine - this is by far the most difficult course to date and I'm not out to thrash myself as I want my PR the weekend after at Mission Bay - when I want to do 50 mins flat or less.
Dad got video of my swim, which was lopsided as hell owing to a nice shot of hamthrax (better known as a flu shot) the day before. I couldn't do anything about it so it didn't really matter. My left delt is grumpy as, so right now I'm just ignoring it. I imagine the itching around the jab site will start soon, and my lungs already feel like they are full of gunk, so whatever!
Anyway, off to bed as I am buggered. More later.
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