So the learning never ends!!! Saturday - lesson 1: When stopping for a brief rest moment on your bike unclip your other foot once stopped. Or fall flat on your ass and laugh because yes - everyone saw you and for the rest of the day you will be reminded "uh oh Eva - coming up to a stop, don't forget to lean left"..... Saturday lesson 2: How to change your tube!! Awesome lesson (thank to Master Greg) and I managed to get down to 4:11 for time... Surprisingly not as hard as you would think - so long as someone who knows is showing you!! Sunday Lesson 3: You have to take your spare tube/CO2 cartridge etc. with you when riding to prove you know how to change the bloody thing....
Saturday was GORGEOUS - beautiful sunshine and warm! Got in 97K on the bike and then 2.5K run after.... Averaged 27.7kph on the bike so just over 3:33!! Getting stronger!
Sunday was again GORGEOUS!!!! Back for more torture, I mean training... What was supposed to be an easy 1:15 hour ride around the area turned into a series of sprints and kicking of one's own ass... But I was pretty well keeping up - until that sound.. Yes, the pop and then the hissing of air escaping from a tire tube.... But - hey - I learned how to fix this yesterday so I'm all good... Until that moment when I realize that all required tools and spare tube are sitting on my kitchen table where I placed them last night....
The rest of the gang is gone from sight and I am faced with a long walk back to the parking lot with my car in my bike shoes.... But the great thing about the group is they do eventually realize you're no longer with them... Luckily as well one of our fellow riders had looped out to put in some extra work came along with a spare tube and proper tools....
So - knowledge is power - if you have the spare parts!
What I am also realizing is that I can totally do this.... Off the bike on Sunday I did a 10K run in 1:11... That's uber slow for most but - last November I did the Angus Glen 10K race (on perfectly fresh rested legs) in 1:10.... Take the training the day before and the bike ride that morning, add those in as factors and not too shabby at all - getting stronger! And now when I transition from bike to run I don't feel like my legs are going to give out on me but - my hearrate still skyrockets and it becomes a mental battle for me to keep going... Lesson re-enforced yesterday by someone I was training with - this is training. this is the time to do it. Take some of your training and try to kill yourself to see how far you can push..... Then you'll know your limit.... And then you can push through that limit next time......
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