I’ll keep this race report brief.The lake was cold and very choppy. As many of you know the wind blows right down the lake and it can almost be as rough as the sea!! Happy to come out of the water in the top 10. Race distance was 2000m for the swim and the time includes T1. (32mins10s)Clashed shoulders with some herbert coming out of transition. Conversations after the race revealed that this was in fact Turbo, Ed Hole!!The bike was hilly (see profile attached below) but somehow it seemed fast. Clocked an average speed of 23.1mph on my computer!! All that Ironman training is clearly in the legs still. Bike time was 2.10.51
I was a little nervous about the run as I don’t generally go well on hilly runs. HOWEVER I hadn’t bargained for all the FREE SPEED I’d been picking up at the wednesday turbo sessions. I stormed round the 12.9 miles (it was about 500m short) in under 1.25 (1.25.50 including trans).
I finished the race with a roll!! I quite literally rolled over the line in 4hrs 8mins (caused much amusment in the crowd!!).
So having flogged my body for 4 hours I was approached by the race referee. She explained that I had racked my bike by it’s handle bars and that she could DQ me for failing to obey referee/marsha. I explained that I had repeatedly tried to rack the bike by it’s saddle before the race, only to see it fall over as my 65cm frame + seatpin didn’t = the height of the racking poles!!
She took a little pity on me and decided to ONLY give me a 30s penalty.
Cheers Mrs!!
Results are at:
http://www.ukresults.net/2007/balamid.htmlI can tell you now that we had 4 great times from Turbos. Kate Foster finished 6th overall in the female race!Roger Barr - 4.08.54 (New 2007 middle distance Club Champ)
Ed Hole - 4.19.25 (looking good for IM Nice)
Matthew Bergiel - 4.30.39 (storming result mate!!)
Kate Foster - 4.42.29 (a massive PB…well done kid!)
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