Monday 9 August 2010

Race Week!!

After what seems like an eternity of training, Race Week is finally upon us.
The taper has gone to plan. With an initial few days of being unable to sleep due to not burning so much energy we seem to have settled down now, the bikes are serviced, polished & packed & most of our race day equipment & other belongings are packed. Quite organised really. Last year it was a bit of a rush getting everything ready as well as sorting out everything for the shop but this year we are slicker. Going into Ironman stressed does not help you on race day.

We have had a final massage this afternoon, a gentle run tonight (Monday) with the JogScotland Group and a short swim session early tomorrow morning then that is us until we arrive in Copenhagen.

We travel down to Manchester on Wednesday afternoon where we stay briefly overnight before the 7.00am flight to Denmark on Thursday.

Thursday will involve us locating & getting checked into our appartment as well as going through the Athlete Registration in the afternoon.

On Friday we have an early morning swim on the race circuit, the Pre-Race Briefing mid-Morning, build & test the bikes & a short 10 min run, then the Pasta Party in the evening.

On Saturday we have another early morning short sharp swim, bike, run. The rest of the day is just spent getting organised & trying to relax followed the Bike Check-in into Transition in the evening.

Sunday = up at 4.30am for RACE DAY!!

I will attempt to update on the athelite facebook page and you can track us on the day by our race numbers on the Challenge Copenahagen Website.

156 Genevieve Freeman - Age Group Swim start 7.05

445 Colin Freeman - Age Group Swim start 7.15

1678 Graeme Allan - Age Group Swim start 7.55

1658 Derek Stewart - Age Group Swim start 7.55
 
http://www.challengecopenhagen.com/en/component/content/article/2/308-for-spectators

1 comment:

Derek Stewart said...

I am not going to steel Colin, Gen and Graemes thunder but they will be reporting great races. The weather on the day was perfect but the day before it was horrific so we were lucky. I managed a 12 hr 45 min 32 sec finish despite having lost my speedo on the bike after a few miles so pacing was difficult.
A big thank you to the guys for all their support at the event amd all Athelite club members running up to the event. Catch you in the pool, so you have an obsticle to get round, once I recover. Lane Tart Derek