Day 2 – oh baby that hurt

Swim – 3km
Bike – 190km
Run – 10km

Everybody seems to think I’m sand bagging when I say I’m in miserable bike shape (and have been for some time) but today was just a horrendous display.
The swim was pretty straight forward swimming with Roly’s swim squad at QEII. Today’s bike was a toughie from Christchurch to Kaikoura (190km) with no shortage of climbing. The KOM at 85km was interesting. Macca was off the front with Mr Persistent in sight. A small group behind was taking turns to try and bridge the gap. Fat Albert did a great pull and with the KOM in sight I went to the front to close the final gap. It was all in vein, if we’d had another 50m we would have had My Persistent – I thought the climb was a little longer. As usual, Molina came around me with 20m to go to take 3rd by half a wheel, one day I will have to learn to sprint.

Post lunch we had a 67km TT – I just don’t want to talk about that. It became a steady ride for me after about 45mins. Nothing in the tank or legs today. Solid effort from Russel ‘cardboard’ Cox (his body is like a rock solid piece of cardboard when he rides) in the TT today, he came blitzing past me. Del “the infringer” Pitcher (Del is a cop from the UK who got a speeding ticker over here in NZ when on a tiki tour

After the ride I had my first zombieathon run of the camp shuffling though the streets of Kaikoura. Feeling a little sorry for myself tonight but looking forward to a big day at the office tomorrow.