Aug 2011 Race 3 Results are in...23rd

The end must be close...

The results are in and I managed 23rd out of a starting field of 38 in the Weekend Warrior Male class.  Not bad, considering everything.

I checked out the lap times and on average I was completing 18 minute laps.  So, it is weird how I managed to drop that to a 17 minute lap after hearing the bell for the last lap.  I definitely remember coming to a stand-still between two rocks on the last lap, which won't have helped the lap time (it was a slow part of the course so no real dramas) and still the lap was a better time.  I just can't remember feeling like it was faster on the last lap.

The results are here.

There are photos from the event here - my favourite here

Looking forward to keeping much fitter now and improving...maybe a road bike for putting some miles into the legs could be part of the next step?

Finally got back racing after long term injury

Well I finally got back into the Brownbacks Racing after a while out on the sidelines.  Injury-free and a little fitter than couch potatoe - but not too much fitter than that - I managed to get racing again.

The course at Lee Quarry was one which went around the outside perimeter and it was heavy and uphill in places (I ended up with a few get-off-and-push parts to the course) but that is probably down to sheer fitness, or lack of it.

The event is extremely well run, as I remembered from 2009, and quite exciting to get off the start line.  I just didn't remember my lungs being turned inside out at the first race in the previous series I raced in. This was until I got to the top of the quarry on lap 2.  Then I remembered!  Leg burn and heart rate were definitely in need of a speed check.

I'll have to wait to check on the actual laps completed, I think it was 5 or 6 but it's so easy to lose count after concentrating on simply hanging on, particularly on the last lap when I know I could have easily fallen off.

A video will be available on Vimeo soon.