Something to be very proud of ! Congrats.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Mann" <dmann...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PESO: Race Ready
I ended up averaging 30km/h on the bike course which I'm pleased about
considering there was was 850 metres of climbing in total over 90km of
distance. It's a beautiful course but a hard ride, the climbs are quite
easy but some of the road surfaces are so rough I thought my bike was going
to disintegrate. Riding rough surfaces in the TT position is very
fatiguing as well.
I managed to pass my coach about halfway into the bike leg but I knew he'd
catch me on the run. He passed me about halfway through the run. My
total race time was just over 6 hours, about 1hr10min faster than last
year and I felt a lot better throughout.
The weather started out very cold, I think it was 5 or 6C when the race
started and the water temperature was officially 14.1 so my cold showers
came in handy (long story). It took about 20 or 30km into the ride before
I got the feeling back in my fingers, and another 20 or so after that for
my toes. Despite my lack of good run training due to injury, I was able
to push a fairly good pace at the start of the run and didn't fade too
badly towards the end. It's amazing how much your pace can pick up during
the last km.
My wife got some pics of me on her iphone but I won't get those from her
until tonight or tomorrow. They had photographers at some good scenic
spots on the course, here's a link.
<http://www.marathon-photos.com/scripts/event.py?event=Sports/RSNZ/2014/Challenge%20Wanaka&match=1134&name=David>
Cheers,
Dave
On Jan 19, 2014, at 8:28 pm, Chris Mitchell <chris.mitch...@which.net>
wrote:
Wow! That's a rather special bike. Looking forward to seeing the
pictures of you in action.
Chris
On 17 January 2014 05:08, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote:
A selfie-by-proxy from the middle of bike-porn central.
http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/722/#peso
Cheers,
Dave
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