A personal journal of endeavor and discovery
We had a superb start to the Ocean Racing Series at Hobie this Sunday 4th October.
I had an easy 2km swim in perfect conditions, and managed 5th amongst the “laaities” in the 50+ age group with a time of 44min – a personal best.
I’m so used to being amongst the stragglers at the back, it was quite novel to have some boys to play with! Never thought I’d actually enjoy swimming, but hey this is really fun.
Can’t wait for the next one in two weeks!
Now to break 40 min…..
You’re not going to believe this!
Just got back from having my TT bike setup redone, and the seat had to be lowered 7cm (yes that’s cm folks, not mm) from the original setup setting!!!! Small wonder I sustained a serious hip injury and could never match the times I did on my old “Ally Raleigh” road bike.
In fact quite amazing that I managed to ride at all!
My own inexperience is really at cause in that I mistakenly believed in the technology and expert opinion which maintained that I would “just need to get used to it”, and that this “could take 3 months”….
Perseverance is an admirable quality, but to do so blindly can be a very costly.
It’s a school of hard knocks!
Should you ever feel that this is all too much and just not worth beating your brains out over, draw some inspiration from this short video clip…