After a very poor night of sleep, we were up at 6am to do an Aquathon. We headed to a lake on the outskirts of Prades. The plan was to do a 1500m swim and 5km run. In my half asleep state I heard four laps of the swim and three laps of the run course. I knew I was swimming slowly but felt relatively strong considering the fatigue on board. I focused on sighting and swam as hard as I could. I was a bit confused when I got out of the water and everyone else was already running.
Oh well, I guess I swam slower than I thought so I started running. It took me a 1.3km loop to get my legs under me. When I looked at my watch it read 2.5km and some of the other folks were finishing their 5km run! I was able to pick up the pace a bit in the second half of the run, but I was 5-10minutes slower than everyone else??
It took me a while to realize that I had swum an extra lap of the swim which meant I had swum close to 1900m instead of the planned 1500m. I was pretty demoralized but at least I wasn’t swimming quite as slowly as I initially thought.
I felt much better after a solid snooze.
Ian was able to figure out that the rear derailleur cable had snapped inside the shifter and that simply changing the cable fixed my bike issues from yesterday!
The first 13km of the 56km ride to the Mediterranean was a Time Trial. It was mentally very difficult to dig deep but I’m happy to say I gave it everything I had in those 13km today. We finished the ride to the Mediterranean to complete the trans Pyrénées traverse, swam 1km in the Sea, then most of us rode 56km back to Prades. I added an extra 30 km for a nice round 150km today.
Totals for the day:
Swim 2900m
Bike 150km
Run 5km
Training time ~7hrs
Epic Camp France 2019 