Right, I don’t want to get into the habit of being a chatterbox on this thing. But, then again; I am a woman.
Sunday I had my first Triathlon. A baby one, not many kms to add to the pot but hey, it was my first. Sadly enough had a near drowning episode in the pool but was saved by my beautiful Orbea (who needs a knight in shining armour when you have a road bike waiting in transition!!)
Was the third slowest swimmer (lets not go into detail on the times, sniff, its good that I just survived) but pulled it together and came 8th overall, 2nd novice home and bagged myself a prize. Can’t argue with that. Ironman will be happy to know that I well and truly have the bug now… roll on the next!
Tonight I headed out to do the chaingang route through in West Calder with some of my fellow skyriders. I forget the exact stats and figures but you can find it all here: http://pedalpowerrt.com/news/133-chaingang-2010.html
Basically it’s about 50km and you cycle as fast as your little legs will let you to keep up with the proper cyclists. Nic and I (lets call her Grasshopper, as she’s even more novice than I :D) decided to head of a little earlier than the rest because she was feeling a bit under the weather. A little warm up to the start line and we were off!
We had a rare old girlie gossip and surprisingly, for the first time ever, no novice missing-our-bottle-holders or forgetting-to-clip-out-at-junction-and-toppling-off to report of! The proper cyclists caught us with 2km to go in a big ‘whooooooosh’ But disheartened we were not. We still covered the course in an average speed of 16.4mph. (On top of that there is one big scary hill which instils me with the fear; but I showed it who was boss at 36mph on the drops… progress indeed!)
It is with great pride I (attempt to!) add my first ever solo amount to the globe effort… 55k plus (ahem, my rather piddly) 10 from the Tri. Its all a pedal in the right direction though!
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