Triathlon, did it and survived…..just!
Friday, August 1st, 2008Maybe it was because I looked at the London Marathon as a particularly daunting task – running for 4 and half hours over 26 and a bit miles. Maybe it’s because I run a half marathon as a leisurely Sunday Morning friendly run up and down some pretty steep hills. Or maybe I just totally misjudged the whole triathlon sport completely and utterly but this is one of the hardest things I have EVER, ever done – much harder than the marathon.
I figured that I run lots so 5km is nothing. I used to complete in the Polaris Challenge with Peter (long suffering husband) in the days before children. The Polaris is a 2 day orienteering challenge on mountain bikes, usually on the weekends the clocks go forward or back – end of October and March – so pretty cold, and they take place in different areas every year, usually somewhere mean and steep like the Black Mountains, North Yorks Moors, Kielder, Exmoor – you get the picture. For the Polaris you have to carry all your food, tent and survival gear on your backs on the overnight element. The last time we did it, we did it on our MTB Tandem and Peter hit a rock on the side of a mountain, tipped us both off and I broke my arm – continued to cycle for another 5-6 hours though!!!
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