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A HUGE thank you to Little Heather for lending me her bike on the coast to coast - it was perfect.
I was completely unsettled by the number of massive mountain bikes spotted in transition ... and spent along time comparing the size of everybody else's tyres to mine
Everybody else's tyres
Mine
My careful pre-race preparations (knackering my knee in the London Duathlon the week before and then getting food poisoning) were not ideal - but the bike was. I thought I was amazing as I overtook everyone (on massive tyres, with full suspension) on the one hill of the course
The hill - no big deal on the right bike
So my off road section wasn't exactly fast ... but as the sum- total off my off-road training had involved cycling down backstreets in Stockwell with lots of potholes, I think I can safely say that the bike was not the limiting factor.
Oh - and we totally owned the kayak stage at the end.
Thank you Heather!