Not a good race for me

This was meant to be some serious practice ready for the Fling for me, however earlier in the week I had been in bed for 2 days straight with a nasty cold and was still suffering the side effects come today, even though I had a good hit out on the road bike yesterday. Lack of sleep last night due to dinner with some friends and with hindsight, one beer to many last night even though I didnt drink heaps.

As you can see my prep was not fantastic by any stretch. Fast forward to this morning and was looking forward to the ride, I wasnt the quickest by any stretch, doing laps at around the 40min mark fairly consistently. By lap 2 I was feeling pretty good and lap 3 i was riding reasonably well and was enjoying things, however the first fire road climb of lap 4, cramps started to rear their ugly head and by mid way through the lap I had to stop as I couldnt pedal cause my muscles had locked solid from cramp.

The heat was a major factor, I sweat a lot anyway but I reckon I was losing well over a litre of fluid a lap and although I had my Nutrition sorted, I suffered from not having enough salt in my drink.

So yeah overall, not very pleased with how today went, chalk it up to experience and I know better for next time. Am I worried about the Fling? No I still think the training i have been doing is more than sufficient, however I learnt a little about myself today.