Epic Camp Day 13

We're at the Mill House at Waianakarua (about 20m south of Oamaru), I've just had a massive dinner (capped off with three huge servings of sticky date pud) and a great massage from Janet, and am sttarting to feel human again. Big day, even by EC standards. Let's go back.

It's becoming a habit to run 10k first thing, and today was no exception. Only difference is I had a 6k swim to follow. To make that even more difficult, (1) Rob and I had to repeat our 3k IM set as the last one was deemed "non-continuous" by the powers that be, and (2) I had to do my 400m IM after 90 minutes 0f "warming up. Well, I made damn sure the 3k IM set this time did not have me touching the bottom of the pool at any stage. As for the 400m IM, well, let's just say that after the 100 fly there was a country mile between me and just about everyone else. Still, I did it and am proud of my effort in the pool today.

The ride today was "only" 150km and the profile wass pretty flat. I decided I needed to spend some time during the day at about HIM effort, just to stretch the legs, and chose the period after the first stop up until lunch to do it (about 50k). It was fun up front cruising along at 36-38kph, only disrupted by those bloody ripple strips that we've all come to loathe.

Post-lunch, the plan was to take it a bit easier for the last 50km, and we did. The Coastal Road just south of Oamaru provided comic relief for the day. Rob, our GPS guru, lead us along a route that, according to Garmin at least, was a "road". We ignored the slight technicality of a sign saying "road closed". We soon came to appreciate the reason for the sign as we passed parts of the coastal road where slips had eaten the road all the way to the middle painted line. We also had to dismount on occasion and drag our bikes over big mounds of dirt that blocked this "road". But the great coastal scenery more than made up for this slight inconvenience.

I had planned to tack on a run, but was waiting to see how the legs felt before deciding how long. They felt good, so 20k it was - back along that same coastal road. I was running well considering the accumulated fatigue I've built up. Did thge 20k in 1:35, which included a couple of decent hills. My goal is now to rack up 250k of running for the camp (my biggest total for a 2 week period, on top of my biggest bike and swim totals - ouch!).

146k ride, 4:28, 195w AP, 215w NP, 657m total ascent.