I made my way out to Devon this evening which amounted to an 85 km round trip. Plenty of wind, luckily the bulk of it was predominantly a sidewind but that still makes you concentrate. I was 1 hour and 29 minutes on the way out, and then tweaked the height of my seat amounting to about 2 minutes. I then made it to the door 12 seconds under 3 hours taking a slightly longer ride home (2 km more). Click Here to see the route.

I didn’t take nearly as many calories as I plan to be taking during the race in 2 weeks, 80 calories in my gatorade, 110 calories in a gel and 220 calories in a powerbar. That amounts to just over 130 calories per hour (for those of you who are uuber lazy), about half of what I plan to be consuming in the race. The difference being that I departed directly after a big pasta meal and that I wasn’t climbing out of the water dehydrated and hungry. This weekend I’ve got a swim/bike brick planned with some Tri Club peeps, and I’ll be giving my “250-280 calories per hour plan” a trial run. I’ve done a bike ride trying 800 cals in 2 hours… I felt no gastrointestinal stress but I didn’t run more than half an hour following that. The plan at the moment is 4 gels, 2 bottles gatorade and the “something solid” that I’m undecided on, whatever works this weekend is what I choose.