Finnally I managed to finish the Wadenhoe without my chain breaking!. Can you believe it? Official finishing time of 1:08:48 which brought me in 2nd over 2 minutes slower than the winner. Grr.
I was faster on the run but lost it on the bike leg. After a bit of post race analysis it was guessed that I'd lost out because of my gear choice. Not wanting to break yet another chain I was limiting my gear changes. This meant I was slower downhill and slower on the up too. Need to balence this with better technic. Changing while under load isn't good for the bike. I don't think I need to change to the bike cog and stay in the middle chainset gear and instead go for gears ranging top to bottom of that gear range.
I'l going to practise this on Saturday if I can.
Second thing I found after analysing the official times was that I was much slower (2mins) on the second run compared to the first. I'll grant you the run mud seemed to be a lot thicker and the tide seemed to have come in but I should have been rocking fairly close to my 1st run time. Some of it could be that I wasn't being chased and with the 1st place man being out of sight I had nothing to aim for. To help counter this I'm going to try "brick training" as often as possible. This is instead of run/bike I'll train bike/run to get used to the change.
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