Tuesday December 4th 2007 Ironman fever gets the better of me

A few weeks ago in a moment of madness I entered the 70.3 German Triathlon, which takes place on the 10 August 2008. For all you non triathloning folk, the 70.3 series is a series of qualifying races which take place around the world with the world championships taking place in Clearwater Florida each November, the race distance being 1900 swim – 90k bike – 21k run. 70.3 stands for the miles you cover during the race, now I am not sure if that’s clever P.R. or just off-putting. Anyway I managed to talk a friend (or he was) into doing it, Dave has only ever done sprint distance races before but over a couple of beers at his house I convinced him that once he had gotten over his hernia he would be fine (seriously he does have time to train correctly).

A few days later he rang and asked if I had seen the profile of the course, to which I replied it’s a bit hilly. His response was he was looking into having a special back block made for his bike (gearing thing). At this point I decided to check the profile of the course for myself, the moral of my ramblings being always check the course before you are stupid enough to enter. Being a positive sort of person, another friend of mine (yes I have two friends) who lives in Cambridge and thinks speed bumps are hills, completed this event last August and has also entered next years race. So it can’t be that bad, can it?

Posted by Lynn Ferris at 16:10 GMT