My main goal this year is the Flight Centre Epic. This is a 100 kilometre mountain bike race on the 24th of August this year. I have decided to bite off more than i can chew and set myself a target time of 6 hours. For a rather amateur, slightly overweight "racer", this might be a tall order. That said, i am going to give this my best shot. My two biggest issues when it comes to cycling are my excessive weight and my lack of climbing ability. These are the two demons i must slay if i am to succeed in this business.
There are 3 more races between now and the epic. These are the Insomnia 24hour, the Noosa enduro 100k, and the Race Face 8 hour at kooralbyn. these are nicely spaced out about 3 weeks apart each, and will be good training events to help get me up to speed for the epic.
Insomnia is a great event, and i am racing in a two person mixed team. the goal for our team is to keep someone on track pretty much constantly, and just see how far we can go. I havn't raced the noosa event before, and it will be my first taste of a 100k enduro. it is going to be a yardstick to see how i am going, and as such i don't have a time goal for it, just to race strong and not do anything silly, and learn about how my body deals with 100k on the mountain bike.
Kooralbyn is a venue i have raced at many times before, and as such, 3 weeks out from the epic i can set some well thought out goals for that event. In 8 hours at kooralbyn i should be able to ride constantly, and cover no less than the epic distance. this will mean covering at least 11 laps of the course (providing its the same course as previously) and only stopping for water and food. i also intend to make my nutrition plan pretty much identical for these two races, simple foods that i can carry on my bike and eat on the bike, gels bars and the like.
All that is left to do now is work out how i am going to train for these goals, but thats another story...
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