Day 12 Now we are rollin'!!

Thursday, January 14, 2010 Day 12 Now we are rollin’ !

Today started with a drive over to Molina’s home town, Sumner. He wanted to show off his local running route, and boy was it a doozie. I just completed 25k less than 12 hours prior, and an additional 4k that morning, so this was going to be a true test of how the body holds up to running….nearly 50k of running in 24 hours!!

The route was to be straight up from Sumner, into Godley Head, back down to sea level and back up a couple more times, consisting of about 2k of climbing. It was going to test me to the limit. I handled the first up pretty good but had to let the fresher legs go, to enjoy the serenity of the vast open spaces on my own. I was pretty blown on some of the downhills, and in order not to crash and burn, and fall off a cliff, I proceed very cautiously. I hate to go missing as there was nobody and nothing out there and since I was pulling up the rear, nobody to see me go over! I finished the hilly loop, and added a 1.5k to get to an even 20k for the points competition, and then we headed back for a quick turn to head out on the bikes.

A good Southerly (which is a headwind) was forecasted with rain. I had every piece of winter gear I own either on me or in my day bag in case things turned sour. We headed out of town for the first 50k as a group, until the longest bridge in NZ before anybody was allowed to turn on the jets. It was nice to roll as a group for a change, which gives a lot of different positions in the peloton to choose from. Sitting in a group was a great help with the wind and rain today, and given my 30k of running my legs liked the relief.

The rain hit hard just before lunch and I put two layers on my legs, and had a good 4 plus layers, with warm caps and the like for my head. That was not enough when not moving but seemed to be ok when we were riding. There was no standing around today, and we banged out the 150k in 5:15 ride time. Most of that speed was in second half of the ride. Upon arrival, there was little time to waste as Lordy, G, Tara and I headed over to the pool, where Tara paced me for 3k, and then I banged out an additional 3k to get in 6k mostly with paddles which got me my swim-bike-run bonus of the day. It was a solid day of about 9 ½ hours of training. Something I find hard to do in an entire week when I am at home!!

25k hilly trail run with 2k feet of climbing—2:20 mins
150k bike with Southerlies and rain—5:15
6k swim mostly paddles in 1:35
Total 9:10

Total for Camp: 92 hr 10 mins