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Wow, another five hour day in the books! Today we started by giving everyone a chance to show their swim skills. Following a scripted workout, the goal was to swim as many yards (we were not in our normal meters pool today) as they could in one hour. There were three points on offer for every 250 yards that went into books with every athlete having the choice to do the workout in which ever lane they chose AND with the help of anybody they wanted to team up with. Tom Anderson and I were able to take out maximum points for the swim, with 3500 yards, while a slew of others were impressive in cruising through up to 3250 yards. Many folks learned to day that by keeping their paces steady and their rest short they could put up “a lot” of yards in one hour or less. No more excuses in training for those folks!
After the swim we rolled out for a ride that was only going to take us in the neighborhood of 3:30 but with a tough climb stuck in the middle of it. To add a twist to the climb (of course we had the KOM competition to shoot for) there were bonus points on offer, just like we do for the KOM, at the bottom of the descent. This made for some tactical decisions about what points mattered more ;) Though technically it is a descent there are some tough little up pitches on the way down from the climb. For me the climb was 40 minutes up and 20 minutes down with the descent being more of a challenge than expected. There were some carrots out there to chase! For those “power junkies” out there 9Rob) my NP for the climb AND descent was 250 watts … that’s about what my hour of power or FT is! Heading back we unfortunately were treated to a sticky headwind that was just not possible to escape. Tough ride! BTW, Troy Tuscher rode quite strongly today and will be awarded with “rider of the day” tomorrow morning when we meet.
Nothing exciting to tell about the run except Jen Surprise (soon to be Latourette) snuck out ahead of us and took an extra couple points on the run ... she added on an extra 10 minutes over the rest of us! Sneaky little turd ;)
For the points classifications I am passing on the Oomph! Leader’s Jersey and opting into the Oomph! KOM Leaders Jersey for tomorrow. Rand Libberton, rightfully, is now wearing the leader’s jersey with Tom Anderson (who actually leads the “geezer” and girls division) in third. Layne Scoggins is a close second in the KOM competition. We will post final points at the end of the camp.
Need rest, so until tomorrow … DL
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