24 hours makes a world of difference. Felt soo much better and 'team spare tire' had a great day in the Epic. 28 miles, 4000ft just under 3 hours- pleasing. The race started with a natural roll out from the Ice Rink- the cop leading this had a heavy right foot and blew the backside out of the field, deja vu.
Couple of big climbs today and saw something that Jeff needs to try- a guy pushing his team mate- a lot, even running alongside pushing, leaving a bike at the top of a climb and running back down to push up! Sure that's not allowed, but hey, they're not in our cat!
Had our own 'advantage' today as taped a profile of the course to the handlebars- oh, how that helped with knowing what's going on. Also tried leg recovery other than compression tights after the ride- standing, waist (too cold), knee (still too cold) calf deep in a lake of freezing water- now that I'm not too sure about. Didn't last too long. Compression tights have it!
Midway point today - but, tomorrow's stage has as much climbing as the first three combined, and the mileage jumps to 40 and change. We've only covered 70 miles todate and there's still over a 100 to go, so will be on the heavy side of 'midway' tomorrow evening. Lets just hope it goes well as cross a couple of 12,000ft passes.
More tomorrow
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Go hard boys! Thanks for the updates from your fans "Down Under". Great to hear that everything is going well. As someone who has cursed "the Lynx" while trailing in his wake uphill...you have my sympathies Tutlewu, Have fun.
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Love the blogs. We'll send a gigathlon update when we have a few moments awaz from having lots of fun with the family. Just got back from a big Swiss Fondue dinner high above Biel, which we biked to. I hope the Tums fixed the Cats Jon.
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