New Toys

Santa must have got confused yesterday because I got home and found that he had dropped off a present early for me. Santa has very good taste.

 

A big thanks to Churchill Cycles for bringing these in for me. Also of course a very big thank you to Santa's Little Helper, better known as my wife, for indulging me enough to get these for me.

Unfortunately they will have to wait until next week since I won't be playing with these until after Busso. To close to the race to be playing with and figuring out new equipment. I suspect that this is the sort of race that a powermeter would come in handy, but that is going to have to wait until the next race. From what I understand a powermeter isn't a lot of use unless you have had a chance to get familiar with it, so I am not sure how much help they would be on the weekend anyway.

 

Other than new toys I also had a bit of training today. One last ride/run. It went okay, other than an absolutely honking wind that was blowing. Riding at 50km/h downwind sort of wind. Needless to say the downwind bits were fun. Upwind, not so much. The run was very comfortable as well, albeit very short.

 

It is a strange, everything is feeling okay, I am feeling fine, the running is comfy, the riding has been going well etc. But it is a long jump to say that feeling good over 5km means that you are going to feel good over 42. It is very hard to correlate the two. All I can do is put faith in the training that I have done and that it will be what I need to get over the line. I guess I will tell you on Monday.

 

Really on the run down now. I wouldn't say the training is all done, because I have a couple of light sessions tomorrow. But really it is pretty close. I will get home tonight, do a bit of packing, do a bit more packing in the morning and then it will time head on down and get on with it.

 

I would say I am somewhere between nervous and calm now. Light nerves perhaps. As I have mentioned before, I think there are too many unknowns for me to be that nervous yet. It is not a case of can I ride/run fast enough, but can I do it for long enough. It is quite a shift from half Ironman, where I am pretty close to racing as hard as I can for the whole thing. This isn't about racing as hard as I can, at least not for the first bits, but instead racing for as long as my body can. Will it be long enough, we shall see.