The past Sunday was my first race after World Championships and the three week rest period thereafter. It was Germiston leg of the local SA BSG Energade Sprint Series consisting of 600m swim, 20km bike and 5km run.
I can’t say I was in form, but I was there to have fun and have an extra hard training set. The wind was blowing like crazy at the lake and I knew that it was going to be a long day if I don’t have a good swim.
I went to transition to rack my bike and have a little chit chat with my friends before things got a bit serious. I did my usual pre-race warm up and then I just had to wait for the starter’s gun to go off. The gun went off and so did we. Surprisingly I had a good swim and made front pack. The first 3km of the bike was very hard. Everybody went out full blast with the tail wind. I could just hold on. We were 7 in the front pack and all of us rotated well to stay away. The wind was pumping full blast, but my Felt F1 bike was stable and stiff so it was a good comfortable ride even against the wind. This was a challenging bike course that hurt my legs a lot …. or maybe it was the lack of fitness that started to catch me .. haha.
We entered transition and I had a clean transition coming out 4th and started the run leg. I knew it was going to be a really hard run but I pushed thru the pain to see in what shape I was. I was placed 6th overall and was very happy that I didn’t die completely on the day.
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This was a fun race and I enjoyed it a lot.
The next leg of the BSG Energade Sprint Series will take place at the Midmar Dam in Kwazulu Natal on Sunday coming.
So until next time this is me saying: “Cheers and enjoy”
Rudolf
