It’s always good to know that someone reads your musings, so cheers to Al who dropped me an email after reading my blog. He has already cycled the course at Wimbleball, and his report back confirms my worst fears – it’s pretty mean.
In his words:
The bike course is goes up long and steady for out 3-4 miles out of the start,then levels off for a few miles then down down down and undulating maybe 7-10miles then a very steep uphill section just before morebath….then all the way up again lots of slow and steady with some quite steep bits too …its pretty hard so lots of hill training needed!! im strongest on the bike but after 1 lap i was busted!
Sounds good, doesn’t it!
The training is making slow progress. I am happy with my swim, which is pretty amazing as that is my weakest discipline; but I’m putting in 3 80 length sessions in the pool a week and have got my time down to sub 45 mins. The bike was going well until some guy in a Vectra put me in the ditch a couple of weeks ago. Luckily, damaged ego and bike, but it put me out of action for the whole of half-term when the weather was excellent. The running is the area of greatest concern at the moment as I stopped about a month ago as a result of a back injury and have been finding every excuse not to go out since. Writing this blog made me feel guilty enough to go out this evening and I survived a 10k run without too much drama, though the time wasn’t terribly flash.
Anybody else doing the Wimbleball event who manages to find their way to this blog, please leave a comment!
Keep it in the big ring!
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