Surveying the course

In the three years I have been involved in triathlon I have learned a lot of lessons - some painful!  So today I cycled the 16 mile course I will be running tomorrow.  I'm glad I did as it involves some tricky hills and pacing myself will be all important.  In the first half the hills are steeper and longer so I'll be taking it easy so there is something left in "the tank" for the end.  I don't want to be crawling over the line although it finishes with a big climb up steps - very much Rocky style if you remember the scene from the film.  I hope they will be playing the theme tune!
I rode the course on my new cx bike and when going through one of the 6 parks we went off road to have some fun which ended up with me having one fall so the bike is now officially christened.  It's a good work out and I'll be spending many hours over the winter racing down trails which should be less dangerous than the roads.  Now to rest and prepare for tomorrow.