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On the bike path from pool in Dobbiaco up to Cortina In the restaurant a couple hours later at the top of the nasty Tre Cime Lavaredo - wet and cold but happy to have survived cold rain and lightning. Beer, ice cream and cappucino in Austria - mmm :) With Randy and Douglas atop the Stelvio - look for these guys at Lake Placid and Kona Another photo atop the Stelvio with Gordo (nice

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Written up the second part of the camp on my Blog here

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Before I had to board the plane I believe we were at the point where we had stopped to refuel from the van just south of Trento. As I noted Molina and Randy caught up to us at this point and we (Gordo, Steven, Anthony, Douglass and I) waited for Scott to get a spare front wheel from Ian as Scott had broken a spoke. Earlier in the week his hub required some maintenance and I had a pedal go bad.

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Sunday 15 June 2008. Epic Camp, day 8 We’re already on the last day. Some of us may also be on our last legs, too, but I certainly don’t want it to end. I’m still leading Scott in the points competition (which I would never have believed a remote possibility at the start of the camp!) so wrench myself out of bed for an extra-point 50 min run. I bumped into Mike who was up doing the same thing.

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Saturday 14 June 2008. Epic Camp, day 7 Big day today as we ride over the Stevlio Pass – at 2800m, it’s pimped as the most brutal climb in the Dolomites. The group headed out for a pre breakfast run together around the town, I was deliberately taking it easy in order to preserve what I had left in me for the big climb – not keen for another day like yesterday – so when the pace increased I fell

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Friday 13th June 2008. Epic Camp, day 6 Still feeling pretty moody I headed out for 1h40 run on the track in the rain. It always sounds worse than it really is as you lie in bed listening to the weather falling, and this proved to be the case as, for the first half of the run it was just a bit drizzley. I hardly noticed as it got progressively heavier. Coming through one of the tunnels on my

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Thursday 12 June 2008. Epic Camp, day 5 2hr run with Steven on the bike track which runs behind the hotel before breakfast The track is predominantly uphill on the way out, and suspect that it would eventually intersect with the bike path that we’d used the previous day to get from Brunico and extends on as far as Verona. Out at 5am, we saw a mountain moose-type thing and several other smaller

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Wednesday 11th June 2008. Epic Camp, day 4 Morning run with Steven was an opportunity to check out the ski resort town of Cortina, with its steeply pitched timber construction, expensive shops and slightly eerie dormant ski facilities. A light rain was falling, which was to be a feature of our 3 day stay in this location. The views cross the valley were stunning. We were using a pool in the

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Tuesday 10th June 2008. Epic Camp, day 3 Woke with stiff legs, having run 42miles since the start of the cap, and the hard ride yesterday, but the 50 min run before breakfast loosened them off. In the pool I decided to have a go at swimming 1km ‘band only’ – worth a bonus point and not something I’ve tried before, but I reckoned it was just something to ‘get through ‘ rather than requiring any

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BLOG 3 - Monday 9th June 2008. Epic Camp, day 2 The day started with a 50 min run to the pool, and an easy, early morning sort of a pace. We met the others there with our kit and were lead through to another enormous and beautiful out door 50m pool. Not as cold as the previous, so no wetsuit this time. I attempted to do one of the point scoring swim sets 10x200 on3.35, which I usually quite

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Sunday 8th June 2008. Epic Camp, day 1 Starts with a short run around the city. Steven and I had been out for a jog the previous evening and were able to show the group a nice route along the river and through the old town. The pace was very easy and there was a bit of a chance to chat with the other guys on the camp. Next, a swim time trial – in a fantastic 8 lane, 50m outdoor pool, directly

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Saturday 7th June 2008. Prologue It’s warm but wet in Verona, Steven and I have been walking its charmingly ancient streets carrying my Campagnolo 10 speed, Eastern wheel with broken Velomax hub. We’ve visited a number of small bike stores and an even greater non- bike stores (a result of either our lack of Italian or lack of local knowledge amongst the locals) all of which were stocked to the

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I kept some notes during the camp so I could give a detailed blog on Epic camp. The first installment (the rest will be in the next post) can be found on my BLOG

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Before camp I signed up to blog, somehow during the week there never seemed the time. Perhaps if there were points for blogging, more would be done. Now I'm back home, the training is done and it's all about recovery so I'll try and sum up my past week. Bear with me as this is quite long. Day 1 was all about hanging onto the group as they pushed up the side of lake Gardia. The camp opened with a

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I pretty much covered the cycling to the Stelvio in my quick update a couple days ago. There will be some great picture up on the sight shortly if they are not there already. I'll try to add some here as well. Prior to hitting the Stelvio we had a quick 50 minute run through town. I ran with Steven and Gordo and what must have been a painfully slow pace for them but enjoyed being able to

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I'm sitting here in the Munich airport quite bleary eyed and trying to recollect what's taken place over the past few days. 54+ hours of training over eight days including 24km of swimming, 620 miles of cycling more uphill than downhill and 54 miles of hilly runny have left this Epic camper a we bit fatigued, not to mention our assault, albeit a weak one, on the downtown Verona nightlife

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I will have a more detailed post later on days 6 and 7, probably on Tuesday after I'm back home in North Carolina. Suffice it to say the Stelvio was a good as advertised today. About a 90 km role to the start into the wind gaining over 2000 feet. Then 25 km to the top of the Stelvio climbing about 900 meters elevation to over 2700 meters (9000 feet). Temp was 2 centigrade with flurries in the

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Yesterday was billed as our easy/recovery day not unlike an off day in the Giro or Tour de France where the riders will get in several hours of riding but aren't racing. Most of the campers opted to get in the minimum volume required to stay in the running for a major 20 point bonus that comes with doing the minimum distance every day (3 km swim, 60 km bike, 10 km run). I awoke early and

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I’m sitting in the lobby of our hotel in Cortina in at 5 am on Thursday (I think it’s Thursday I’m sure it’s day 5 of Epic Camp). Before I get into my report on yesterday I have to share something amusing that just happened uber climber Jo just came down to put here Garmin GPS outside to let it locate a signal before she and Steven took of for a run and she walked smack into a glass door on the

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Just a quick note here as I didn't sleep much at all last night, had a big day today and it's 9 pm. This thing with my leg that keeps recurring is really bizzare in that it seems to get very bad and then much better very quickly. I was able to walk somewhat normally this morning and even tried to run but thought better of that after a few steps as it was still pretty tight and sore. I was able

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It's a little after 3 am Tuesday morning. I think I said in my prior writeup that yesterdays ride alone made the trip worthwile. It seems that statement may be put to the test. Day 2 did not going so well for me. I woke up with adductors/hamstrings on my left leg very tight/spasming and really could barely walk. This has been a recurring problem for me over the past year. It seems to flare

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Day 1 was pretty sweet. We started at 5:30 am with a 6.5 mile run through Verona which is a very beautiful town. For someone from the U.S. it's pretty cool to run through a place where 90% of the architecture was constructed before the Mayflower landed. A lot of the run was along a river that was flowing pretty quickly due to much recent rain. We then headed to the pool for a 3 km swim with

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This is my third Epic Camp but will be my first time blogging. Hopefully some of you will find it to be intersting reading but mostly I want to record my thoughts for my own benefit. I'm presently sitting in the Munich airport awaiting a connection to Verona to kick off Epic Italy. Here's a brief bit about my background. I started competing in triathlons in 2001 as a way to get into shape. I

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Here's a link to my lengthy writeup on the whole camp: http://eliotdrake.blogspot.com/2008/02/epic-camp.html

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Day 7 Cluster Clog on the Donkey Trail Today we started with a run up the mountain in Queenstown toward the Gondola. We were heading to the Ben Lomond saddle, around Arthur’s Point and were expecting about a 3 hour run. It quickly became a stair step up the side of this frickin mountain and consisted of very little running. As the group began to spread out I realized I would be running mostly

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