Sunday 1st January 2012
Cycling
02:32:30 - 37.01
Miles (14.60 MPH / HR Zone 2 / 76% Max / Cadence 82)
Out for my long ride today and I picked a pretty nice route. The weather was pretty good albeit a bit windy but nothing too horrible.
I went out to Hillsborough -Anahilt - Ballynahinch - Carryduff - Belfast - Lisburn.
Pace and HR were excellent and I was averaging over 16 mph for the first 1.5 hrs - but then the weather changed dramatically. It literally started to chuck it down, the wind picked up even more and the temperature dropped about 5 degrees.
The end result was that for the last 40 mins of my ride I was in absolute agony with frozen wet fingers which I couldn't feel apart from the agonising pain of them being frozen.
I was so pleased to get home and I spent about 25 mins in the shower getting sensation back in to my fingers and toes.
I was pleased with the ride and the fact that I stuck at it and made it through in pretty tough conditions.
The scary part!! This was only 1/3 of the bike distance I will need to do on the day of the Ironman. A very scary prospect.
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