Even after tea my motivation was not for cycling, but Billy came too and it made it easier. We had a short loop in mind, 27 miles, up to Leyburn and back, immediately I pushed hard to stay with Billy, I tried to stay out of the draft zone but kept finding myself in it. It was nice riding because it created breeze, but when we stopped at the lights you could feel the oppressiveness of the heat hit us. The good bit about this loop is you work hard for half the course and roll home, it also gave me practise at downhills, not really steep ones though. When we got home we went for a 3 mile steady run.
Glad we went out now, the bike ride was the fastest I've done in ages and I got 2 Strava QOMs.
This time 4 years ago I was competing in Outlaw for the first time. I loved it and did it twice more, Outlaw is an IronDistance triathlon. But apparently you can't count yourself an Ironman until you have completed an Ironman Corporation event. I attempted to do this at Ironman Wales last September but was beaten back by a rough sea and pulled out after one lap of the 2 lap swim.
So the journey to become an Ironman continues but the end is getting closer.
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