Below is a graph of how my average speed varied along the route. Bare in mind that my target speed was about 10.5 km/h. I aimed to press for a new lap at each mile marker but as you can see there’s only 18 data points on the chart so I failed to do so. [...]
I had no idea how hard it would be. Absolutely no idea. And this is where I would want to be a great writer. I would love to tell you in saturated technicolor how the race went; how my body performed and what went on in my head as the mile marks passed.
I finished the [...]
Ed. This is a double posting from my personal blog at Tapaninaho.com.
Oi, one night to go. Writing this on the road to Edinburgh, Scotland. Darina is driving.
Physical preparation may not have gone to the original plan as I mentioned earlier, but I still feel pretty good. Or, actually, this weeks prep has gone to plan; [...]