Week 5

A light week with crazy weather so missed all my ride sessions due to various reasons and took a rest day yesterday as the boys were starting to drive the wife around the twist as they had been trapped inside all week.

The first twilight club tri was attempted on Friday night and it was an experience. We were all geared as the lightening and thunder hit the blue mountains. The organisers advised the rain should miss us as they had just checked on the web but they were wrong. They pull the plug on the swim due to OH&S and set us off on a 2.5km run, by the end of this the drizzle started. On the first lap of the bike the weather deteriorated further and by the end of the first lap it was heavy rain, paddles and flowing water, and i was expect to be waved in and the race cancelled. But no, we were waved through, down the back straight we had gusting cross winds and torrential rain. It was falling hard enough i could only just see and with a tail wind it was easy to get the bike up over 50km/hr which made everything interesting. When we turned into the wind and driving rain into the face it was blinding, quite a few had got off their bikes and were walking back to the start /finish. We were waved in and sent out on the run, at this stage there was water sheeting across the tracks and ankle deep puddles, i through off my shirt as it as it weighing around 8kgs and i could not move. Given the condidtions i was happy with the body performance.

Then the drive home in the rain, flooding at blaxland, and accident at the speed camera and no power at home. A fun night had by all.

Swim 8k, Run 20k, Paddle 8k, attempted club tri 2.5/10/5