ECNZ 2010 – Day 7 – Wanganui to Masterton
ECNZ 2010 – Day 7 – Wanganui to Masterton
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I had to drive the van to the pool today so no run for me. To avoid swimming aimlessly I hooked up with Molina and Tara for a set of 10x200 on 3:05, holding 2:50’s. It’s was pretty cruisey swimming but made the time fly. I did a 500m warm up so after the 200’s had 500m to kill. A few of the guys started rolling into a 200fly for a bonus point so I decide to get that done as well. The secret with the 200m fly is starting as easy as possible, good streamlines and not getting too vertical. As expected the last 50m was pretty ugly.
The ride today was over 200km. Thankfully the wind gods were again kind to us with predominantly tail or side winds. When you get these sort of winds it’s just as easy being on the front dictating the pace and not having to deal with surges than sitting in the pack. So after a 4km warm up I got on the front to the first aid station at around 65km, we made some good time. Our tail end group had thinned even further down to 8 today so I was careful not to put in and big surges on the rollers and keep things together. All in all Gordo thought I was on the front for 140km of the ride today, that might be a little on the generous side but I’ll take it
We had a couple of brilliant sections of riding today. First was the Pahiatua track just past Palmertson North, whilst a bit narrow in places there was a great (unexpected) climb in there. Second was from Eketahuna to Masterton on the 52 via Alfredton, a rolling route with tail wind, we held some great speed.
Overall I felt quite good today. Everything is holding up well.
Tomorrow is going to be interesting with gale force winds forecast!!
I’m now 0/7 with doing any podcasting but Bevan is calling through tomorrow night so we should have something up soon. I have posted some pics on the Epic Site for the first few days
Summary
Swim 3km
Bike 203km
posted by john @ 9:27 PM
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