Toodyay Randonneur - CycleRoad Race

so we started out really well for the first 5 or 6k's I was sitting up the front leading my team and feeling ok. then the first hill hit and our team splintered. I felt ok going up the first hill. it was a long steep hill and it was really hard to stay together as a team. so we spilt and waited up the top for the rest of the team.

I felt ok for the first 10k's of undulating hills but then I just started struggling to breathe, I don't know if it was hayfever or a bug but I just really could not get enough air in. and I struggled for the rest of the ride.
It was a hard ride just one hill after another. I ws thinking on the way out its ok we've just gone 23k's up hill the way back is all going to be downhill. god knows where those hills came from on the way back but it felt like it was all uphill on the way back too.

I unfortunately was holding the team back a bit on the way back in with one of the other guys we just struggled up those hills.

not enter an event 2 weeks after a half with no training for 2 weeks. not enter a hilly event with absolutely no hill trainin in the last few months. (thank god the half was flat)

Not do an event where my lungs are going to explode even on the downhills. it wasn't lack of fitness it was wheezy tight lungs. very scary.

got off the bike as soon as possible crossed the finish line rode bike to car and put it straight in my car.
Sat around with my team and enjoyed the lunch after the event.


Lack of hill fitness, lack of health!
I also think that slammer is not a hills bike. I really struggled pushing the tri bike up hills. I also really struggled sitting up out of the bars for the entire ride. my hands were seriously sore by the end of the ride after the blue metal roads. I really need to get a road bike for winter and for these kind of events. As soon as that tax year ends I'll be shopping for another bike.


I sucked today!