2nd rest day of the week (one too much in my opinion!) & a chance to re-load for the ultimate fight tmrw!
Friday July 16th 2010 – WOC LONG Distance - 38km – 1.200m climb – expected winner time 110min!
How do you PREpare for that?
Well it’s too late to do anything new, so it differs a lot btw athletes….someone sleep & stay calm all day, others ride the bike for hrs others…do other things!
Well it’s too late to do anything new, so it differs a lot btw athletes….someone sleep & stay calm all day, others ride the bike for hrs others…do other things!
I have had a good active recovery/pre-race day:
· Brkf around same time as usual….Okay I slept 30min extra!
· Relax in bed studying some maps from the model event
· Joined a meeting of the active athletes commission (over coffee and cake;-))
· A nice MTB ride with the guys half way up the local mountain top Serra do Laruoco (Lasse & Erik went all the way, but those guys are gold candidates so let them show off;-)) Picture 1/2-way from top - more below!
· Lunch….still the same buffet as we have had the last 6days!!!!luckily they have Heinz, otherwise!
· Ice cream & coffee with the guys at the local coffee shop….had to move under the umbrella as the Viking skin already burns a bit…on the top!!
· 2hrs cleaning, oiling & just pimping Miss Scott….she is still in good shape & the new wheels/tires does a great job down here in the gravel, stones, thorn’s, down hills etc!
· Shower!!!!
Thoughts before the fight of my life!
Tmrw’s gonna be tough like crazy, I know, just look at the numbers above (or here: 38km, 1.200m climb, expected winner time 110min) but it will be equal for all. The winner will be the guy who managed NOT to over cook in the fight up the hills, but stay fresh enough to chose the right route choices! A wrong choice in this terrain easily cost you 3-4min! We only have 17 controls, so it’s gonna be a lot of pushing MAX btw the controls/choices…a real king stage, where the winner will be the lion..a true champion!
Tmrw’s gonna be tough like crazy, I know, just look at the numbers above (or here: 38km, 1.200m climb, expected winner time 110min) but it will be equal for all. The winner will be the guy who managed NOT to over cook in the fight up the hills, but stay fresh enough to chose the right route choices! A wrong choice in this terrain easily cost you 3-4min! We only have 17 controls, so it’s gonna be a lot of pushing MAX btw the controls/choices…a real king stage, where the winner will be the lion..a true champion!
I hope it’ll stay nice tempered as the last two days i.e. around 25 & some clouds! If not, I’m gonna melt, so PLS all send some ice thoughts to Montalegre tmrw, around 10.45! I start 3min behind my CZ club mate Radek from USK and has Lasse 6min behind! Still believe Top 20 is possible, but it has to be a good (cold!) day!
If interested you can follow our fights "live" with results & pictures here
Finally the Portuguese folk music guys are finished and the buffet is open, so time to dinner!
Pictures from the ride today....it's Lasse & Erik ON the bikes!
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