A great weekend of racing. Day one consisted of 8km run/37km MTB/11km run/35km MTB - I had a great day and held a solid speed all the way through the 4 stages. The runs were pretty quickly paced and the time on the MTB was also good - got moving along doing some good laps with a few others at stages of the bikes unitl I or them dropped off - Day one finsihed with me in 4th Place and in 4hr12min.
Day 2 started with an 8km run which i knocked out in 29min!!! we were flying and then it was onto the MTB for 42km of pumping the pedals and keeping things moving along before the last stage of the race which was a 9km run - feeling ok here I used what energy I had left to finish as stong as I could. I finished day 2 in 4th place again after spending much of th ride today with the 2nd placed individual, but there was a 12min time gap i was never going to be able to close on him on day 2.
So overall a good race, I was placed 4th Individual and overlall from the teams as well i ended up around 20th which is always quite satisfying beating lots of teams!! It had been 2 years since I did this race and I took 35min off my time!! A very competitive field this year made for some good hard racing. Things are shaping up well for the Goldrush on 20-22nd March which is my next race and one of the biggies for the season.
