I’m falling off the wagon with my blogs but my saving grace is that I did some interview on my weekly podcast. Check out www.ironmantalk.com or download via Itunes. So today was events day. We opened up with the traditional swim events (400IM, 200 Kick & 50 sprint). There was a bit of debate last night on whether everyone could make the 400IM at altitude. I knew that all theses guys could do it if that put their minds to it….. so the event went on. Plus it’s great entertainment value. Colm Cassidy gave the best value as his arms barely made it out of the water and he was near vertical – it was debatable that his arms were even in front of his legs at times. Monica walloped all the guys with Scott 2nd and Gordo 3rd. Next up was the 200 kick. Jonathon Kelly showed a clean set of heels in heat 1 and ended up getting 2nd to Monica. Then the 50m free was taken by fast twitch Ken Wallace in 28.3. Not a bad time at 2000m elevation on day 10 of epic camp.
We then proceeded to the push up arena. There are some great pics on the photo’s page. Top effort by everyone with ex-footballer Ed Mcdevitt taking the honours with 61 (a little shy of Clas’s 90 odd in Australia). The 10min mountain run straight up a ski lift followed in what was a real gut buster. Navigation played a key role and Molina took the race in style from Gordo. Ian’s son Lewis went AWOL which resulted in me running up and down the hill 3 times – or was it planned by the guys as punishment for making them do the event.
Next; standing jumps. Fast twitch Ken again showed the boys how it was done with leap 222cm, gordo went off first and was staring down the barrel at the wooden spoon until Colm came to his rescue.
We then had lunch followed by a 350m run race with bike. Colm had a sprint finish with Gordo and took it by a length. The last ‘real’ event was a 4km uphill bike TT done in reverse GC. Molina surprised us by ripping the bike to shreds winning by 14sec from Mike with Gordo 3rd.
The final event was mini golf on a very challenging course. There were plenty of max 7’s but Mike M (who plays 30 rounds a year) took the win (well actually I had the best score but that didn’t count).
Overall events day honours were shared by Scott & Mike M. Going into day 11 Mike has a 5 point lead on Gordo. With both guys looking completely spent it could be interesting tomorrow.
The guys are now completely toasted. There’s not a whole lot of enthusiasm to get out for our next two transition days. Tomorrow we are back on the bikes with a 150km ride to St Girons over the Col du Puymorens (over 2000m). The weather is not looking promising.
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