This is a really hard duathlon. And beautiful. Too bad if you want to do a good time is not going to be able to enjoy, except to enjoy the best means to suffer and see the back of the guy who carries forward. But to make a good time is important to know what you see and know the terrain. After two years of participation, an absolute beginner with a lot of respect , and a second year late for the start and doing all the way off balance, try playing this year make good time. For this training focused on the run and in contact with the mountain, leaving a little bike that I've been training her whole life ... Download my personal time of 4 hours 20 minutes seemed affordable and thought that 4.10 was available to me. Go for it.
late September temperatures have been unusually low. Only 3 rd at 7 am on Ribes. Ugh. Imagined that this could develop into many sub-zero in that same time Puigmal. The point is Puigmal culmimante this duathlon mountain over 2,900 meters. A true giant.
After almost repeat out late last year we arrived just in time to place ourselves at the very end and hear the starting gun. We must move forward as is.
begin to weave trying to overtake all I can, mainly by the left but you have to be on the right, on the right. The final people take it calmly to the exit, the test is long, but I was sure that meant a good time to start doing the bike leg to stop. Here I go. I can not stop people overtaking in the 11 km-long ascent to Fontalba. A good wheel lame legs and when I can, some pedaling faster and later. I feel good, but almost to stop regulating. The result is 1 hour 10 minutes when control step Fontalba chip. A rapid transition, change of boots, helmet off, grab my hat and go. I uploaded without touching the container, or in the food supply forced me to drink 3 or 4 glasses of water, do not get dehydrated.
Puigmal ascent begins from the beginning people will walk. There is little overtaking. But step by Fernando, also Cardedeu, and I think I should be going up very well to be ahead of him. It motivates me to think that. I already know the Puigmal of the two previous times, I know the landings and I know that the hardest part is the end. This time we just off the cross that is on top and I'd like to get the souvenir photo next to it, but no time for sissies, another day will be.
For many the crown is over the worst, but I know that the worst is just about to begin. The road between stones is steep, land slides and I can not let go because the fall would be the championship. The quads are starting to suffer. I passed some guys and especially a blonde girl who falls like a bike, but controlling. Awesome.
remains a long way to the Sanctuary of Nuria where the spirit of the people gives me goosebumps. This year's supplies by the Lake, and then stop briefly to eat a banana and drink, and I have no drum to slice up, and will total 2 hours and 29 minutes ... Nuria Even before my calculations led me to get a final time of 4 hours, which seems a past and motivates me to keep up.
Fontalba Coming back to me squeeze maximum and then be all down and no where to spend, you have to leave everything there. I take the bike fast and low without touching the brake until the curves, where grit your stability tests. I punctured people from the sides of the track and suddenly I see an ambulance and people making signs of stopping. I try not to make the looker and do not give head turns, I lose 4 hours. Then I learned of the gravity the accident. Shit.
A little further down I see my friend Marc played, repairing. I greet. If I am not asking for anything is that you can do it alone, but my conscience tells me I'm a pig for not stopping.
The final reward is to lose the 4 hours, 3 hours 56 minutes and third in my age group.
Probably the best classification ever had in a competition. I felt very well and still do not know the secret. Training, just like always, but a quiet week before I think it helps. I do not know if one day I will run this time, I'll try. But for now I'm on a cloud ...
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http://www.triatlo.org/competicions/resultat10.aspx?numero_car=1920&tipo=V
