After the morning race, I went back to the hotel and slept for an hour and a half or so and woke up feeling surprisingly good.
Race #3 is exactly the same as race #2 except that you do it in the order of Bike-Swim-Run. By this time, the temperature was pushing 80 and I was starting to wish that I’d brought my training helmet with the vents.
My legs felt OK and having some idea of what to expect, I made up my mind to try harder in the third race.
Big Mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got to halfway six minutes quicker than in the morning but, I died on the big climb on the way back. The second climb finished me off: my quads were trashed by the time I got back into transition and my bike split ended up being 13 seconds slower than the morning’s effort.
Trying to get into my wetsuit ….. (even though I’d decided to use my sleeveless Xterra Vector Pro …. Thanks again Sponsors!) had me rolling around on the ground for five minutes before one of the volunteers gave me plastic bags to put over my feet and did the zipper up.
The water hadn’t warmed up much and caused my much-overheated quads to cramp during the second lap. Despite this I had a decent swim: only two seconds slower than in the morning.
I tried on the run but, I was noticeably slower all the way. Hills that I’d hardly noticed in the morning slowed me to a gentle jog and I resorted to walking the two steepest sections: a quarter mile section between miles 1 and 2 and a half- mile long section just after the turn. This cost me six and a half minutes and my run split of 60:28 gave me an overall race #3 time of 3:04:50
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