Another outing on my Cyclocross bike, this time a mountain dualtholn in Mataro just north of Barcelona. Nice early start, 9:30 = 8:30 on the day we change the clocks.
The run went OK, I am not a fast runner and so 28.41 for 5.6 Km cross country run was quite pleasing. I wanst last onto my bike, 20 or so people behind me and quite a few not so far in front which makes for a nice competitive bike ride. On some of these races, especially further up in the pyranees, your on your own on your bike if your a slow runner like me.
Again I was the only person there on a cyclocross bike so i was worried the course would be to rough for my Kaffenback but in the end it was fine, smooth tracks for the initial climb of 270m, so i had plenty of grip and lots of smooth single single track through the woods which was great.
Still thinking of getting a mountain bike, the descents are bearable but i'm sure I would feel better for the run after the bike if my bones were a little less shaken.
Still there something nice about doing the course on a bike like this, everyone gives you a smile.
I came in at 1:41 for the bike ride 195 out of 220. The course from my garmin is below.
The last 2.5km run was very difficult, my legs didn't want to do it at all.
2:28:32 alldone, Great event.
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