I have just returned from another weekend in Scotland and to be precise Loch Tay. Yes just two weeks after a long weekend of training which ended with the Artemis Great Kindrochit Quadrathlon I returned for the Artemis Highland 100, www.artemishighland100.com, and it was a good weekend.
With the week focused mainly on my biking I managed to rack up 100km plus on Monday after work. The ride was more of a mental than physical workout because I did the whole ride as laps of Regents Park.
Tuesday was a day out the office and with a 3hrs swim and a 125km bike done I was happy with how the weekend was turning out.
On to Wednesday and another day out on the bike and another 5hrs30mins on the bike and then a dip in the local lake.
Rested up Thursday and packed up for the weekend. With a 4:30am wake-up and a 6:50am flight it was setup for a long weekend. Leaving Edinburgh on Friday midday I biked the 160km’s to Loch Tay and then did an additional loop of 50km around the Loch to registration.
The plan was to ride the Highland 100 fairly fatigued so at just after 11pm on Friday I headed out for a 3hr run along the Loch in the dark, and it was very dark at stages, lucky the head touch lasted the distance. Back in the hotel and in bed for 3am only for a 6am wakeup for breakfast and off to the start.
The Highland 100 is a 110km ride with a 12km off road (MTB) section so as training I thought it would be best to do it on my road bike and run the off road section.
I set off with Mark Beaumont and we split at the off road section, running just isn’t as quick as carrying my bike. So mark headed off while I trotted the next 12 km’s before remounting and riding the final 45km’s finishing in 4hrs45min and in second place.
This is a great day out and all money raised by the cyclists goes to charity and one of the charities that benefited was TUSK and they were there in person manning a water station and cheering all the riders on.
It’s not long now till the training is all over just on 3 weeks left and on Friday it’s back in the Lab or the final tests before the start.
Got to go now
Cheers
Nino
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