Peak to Peak Multisport Race Queenstown - 19th July 2008

One of my favourite races, the Start of this is high up on the Remarkables and the Finish is at the Ski Field Base at Coronet Peak!!! Stages are as follows
1. Run/Ski
2. 17km MTB - fantastic downhill on the Remark's access road
3. 7km Kayak across from Frankton to Queenstown.
4. 9km Run (all up hill) to the bottom of Coronet Road
5. 9km Cycle up Coronet Peak Ski Field Road.

This year was my 5th time racing as an individual and i managed a PB time of 2hrs 45min which i was stoked with. The winning individual time was 2hrs 22min. I had pretty good stages feeling strong in all areas. I finished the run in 38min which was the 6th fastest individual i think. A well run event and heaps of fun! Open mens section placing was 16th out of 51 individuals and overall including teams i was 48th out of 150 entries!

Mac Bay Lovers Leap Multisport Race - Race 5 WInter Series, 6th July 2008

the last race of the five race multisport series was Today (Sunday). Had a good race and feeling not too bad despite the cooler temps and the wind!,

So for the series i was

Race 1: 2nd

Race 2: 3rd

Race 3: 3rd

Race 4: 1st

Race 5: 2nd

Well after a mission of a drive over the motorway after all the snow yesterday i arrived at the race start at Mac Bay at 9.30am, this is when it was supposed to start, even leaving home earlier i still got held up by trucks on the icy roads. The race consisted of a 10km Paddle, 20km MTB and 10km Run. Anyway it was a super quick get ready which basically involved gettin gmy bike off the car, giving my running shoes to be taken to the run start , hopping in my boat and GO!! A southerly wind coming up the harbour for the paddle, we did 2x 5km out and back loops for the paddle, It was only Gav and I and one other woman doing the Kayak option, but we had 4 of the surf club guys there to keep us honest on the paddle so cranked it hard for this. Gav was out of the water about 1-2min clear of me and i followed onto the MTB up centre road and along the tops before dropping down the Buskin track and following along the bottom before coming up the road from sandfly bay. From here it was alog the road further and up the road to the Lovers Leap park which was the run transition, from here we ran around the headland before dropping down into sandfly bay and running along the beach. On the MTB and run is where i caught and passed 5 of the Duathlon competitors who had started ahead of us, this is always good for the spirits when you are feeling a little worn! Running along sandfly beach was tough as the wind was really strong and then up the dunes out of here and a touch climb back up ontho the top road before dropping down the Greenacres track to finish back at Mac Bay. A solid race which was tough, i never managed to catch Gav he was cranking well infront of me, I only got a Glimpse of him ahead of me coming up the hill from Sandfly bay. A solid finish in 2nd (even if there were only 2 doing our option, about 8min back on Gav i finished in just over 3 hours!! Great blast, next Peak to Peak in 2 weeks time.