Cycling1:03:28 25.64 km (2:29 / km) +242m2:22 / km ahr:115 max:161
Took the opportunity to visit the velodrome at Narrabundah and had a go on the track bike - my first time. Managed to ride a few laps actually on the track, not on the duck board. 1:36 for 1km (38kmh, 3 laps). Still a bit smokey (PM-25 = 110), had a coughing fit after.
Teering race 27:50**** 4.16 km (6:42 / km) +40m6:23 / km ahr:151 max:167 spiked:23/29c slept:2.0 weight:74.4kg shoes: ASICS Kayano 23
Aranda Bushlands. Nice course, quite technical and I made a lot of little mistakes which I can put down to jet lag - probably got 1-2 hours on the first long flight back, but nothing on the Doha-Sydney leg, landed 6:30am. Air a bit smoky but heat was more of an issue. Air rater had 308 pm-25. The splits show a poor effort with significant mistakes at 2, 16, 17, 26, 28 and 29. 2 - lost 30s. scale (5000) got me as I came up to the creek way before I thought I should. Direction was hopeless too and contributed to hitting the creek early. 16 - lost 1:35. Had caught sight of Kathie ahead but she flummoxed me by seemingly running randomly in the bushes near where the flag was and staying in the bushes on the way to 17 instead of stepping a few paces left to get in the open. So I went in to the bushes to the left of the flag and kept going left where there were a few "creeky" looking things. 17 - lost 40s. Had trouble with the contours here. Went in at about the right place but turned away from the control. 26 - lost 10s - went wrong (short) way around the bushes. Should have followed PdJ who had just passed me. 28 - lost 15s - direction way off 29 - lost 20s - couldn't read map and followed a gully behind the control. So all up lost 3:30 which would have put me in Scotty territory.