Any one fancy teaming up with OC to do this:
THE CHALLENGE
The Columbia HellRider™ is an 8-hour off-road team duathlon taking place in Buckinghamshire's West Wycombe Park on Saturday 4th June from 1000 - 1800hrs
You can enter as a team of 3 or a team of 5 and we will even allow hardened individual entries (respect!) The objective is to complete as many of the alternate c5km run loops and c8km mountain bike loops as possible within the 8-hour time limit.
It's the day before the Chiltern 100, so could be a great double up for the week end. Obviously not for me as I'm still in training and not quite mad enough for it.
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Although I am on a late shift that day I believe
ok
I am gonna enter, solo if no one else fancies it.......
last call for any prospective team mates......???
Solo is the only way to do it!!!
Shame on you for even considering only doing part of the race
I'm almost in as a solo runner/rider but there's a couple of things to clarify in my own mind before I do. Running is running and riding is riding but never having done a duathalon I'm not to sure how the other bits work, what would be the best compromise between padded cycling shorts and running shorts?
How do you manage the transitions when you're on your own? Fuelling I imagine will be a matter of grabbing something on the run and topping up a camelbak when I can, how about shoes, zip lock laces the way to go? Any other tips?
Transition will depend on the shoes you wear for the mtb? over this length of time I would say that comfort outweighs time spend in transition but I am sure Smiffy will tell me to HTFU
I am on lates this day I think but may have time to come and offer some <<ahem>> support
Cheers Meldy, I thought that might be the case but i was hoping there might be another solution that didn't involve skin tight lycra.
My bike is fitted with SPDs with the accompanying shoes being fairly clunky, now I'm never going to be competing for the front paces so I'd probably just go with different shoes rather than change the pedals to flat pedals and accept the loss of stability.
By support do you mean abuse? In which case that'd be good, I can start running again next week after a lay off so I'll se ehow that goes before making a final decision
My mountain bike only has ordinary pedals anyway so I am not going to muck about getting spuds for one event.
Best change the slicks though
i have not entered this yet.... life went a bit sh1t over the weekend, so things are on hold.
If things pan out OK i'll enter in a month or so as this looks really silly!