The Race

March was really just a month of head down, bum up, focussing on training and preparation for Belgium, lots of paperwork to close off Alto’s domestic summer season and preparation for the 2019 Flahute season.

I re-introduced myself to hills, albeit small ones to match with the hills in Belgium, when we get back from Europe it’s back into the long suffering in the hills to prepare for the Flahute adventures. It’s still weird but great not to have any foot pain. Long may it last.

Candy and I had a warm up road trip down to Temuka to do the Timaru Tour de Coffee Culture. It funny how much you fret about when it’s been ages and yet we are away pretty much every fortnight at the height of the Flahute rides. The Timaru course is a really fun circuit and thanks to Shane for organising a huge crew – this was Candy’s first 100k ride on her new bike and she did really well considering that she ran 30k the day before. I struggled through being incredibly seedy after drinking way too much the night before….

Candy’s own preparation for the London Marathon is going really well, the last two years of training really coming together for her as well as some specific running drills and strengthening exercises from a running specialist.

And we come to the end of the month which draws the end of a long preparation for both of us for Belgium/London and excitement and planning for the next goal – challenging myself with extending myself more on the Flahute rides and an ultra-marathon for Candy.

And now the month in glorious techni-colour > https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z4xc9cMFDcdKVjDq6

The Race