Race Events

quick update on my last ventures...Raced up the plat d'adet to 1800m from the town of St Lary...although feeling like I had a dead cow attached to my ankle as I ran I somehow felt a little better after km 4 and cruised on to finish 1st in the women's field in the 13kms race.
Following week was a 26kms mountain race over a really technical course beginning in St Pe de Bigorre. I finished 1st woman and 8th man though if I improve on my descending while running I couldve maybe popped into top 4-5. In any case I couldnt walk properly for the next 4 days!

It has been 20 years since Ive seen Marty and Jill Jemison and hey! they look the same! still as young, have a new addition-Atlas, their 9 year old daughter, and still enthusiastic about cycling, sunshine, and I'm off for an excellent week in the pyrenees!
more to come!!!

debut juin dans les corbieres j'ais participer a mon premier half ironman de la saison. Parti sous des nuages bien gris, je suis sortie de l'eau 130eme sur 200 puis une fois sur le velo pour moi la course commence. parcours velo exigeant avec un mini col a passer plusieres fois je monte du 130eme au 12eme....course a pied pas encore en route je termine 30eme au scratch et 1er femme.

ITS OFFICIAL! THE 2nd ANNUAL LA MARION CLIGNET fund ride for research on epilepsy will be held sunday May 30th in Lisle Jourdain, more information to come soon!!!

What a day that was! Last sunday I set off at 8h45am to run my first (non injured) marathon. I took off with my training partner, Arnaud, who I had broken my semi record with a few weeks prior and we opted to set off on a 4.10 per kilo pace which would have us finish in just under 3h. All started well, at the 5kms mark we were spot on, at 9kms though Arnaud started to fade a tad but hung on until the 10kms mark when he told me he wasnt well.

octobre 5 at the start of the Tournefeuill half marathon a friend I run with introduced me to a friend of his and said hey, you two should run together, youre both the same level and you'll keep eachother from accelerating. I had run a 1h28 and this guy wanted to run a 1h26...still unsure of where i could go with this i said ok and if youre too fast youre on your own! So, off we went, looking at our watches every km and we stayed right with in our forecasted time both running to a pr of 1h25. Nice day! Last little jaunt before the Toulouse marathon was sunday oct 19, the albi duathlon.

2.5kms of ocean swimming and I dont really know how to swim! the first 300m were ok, i was actually in the peleton then suddenly we turned and the women were swimming away. I turned again and suddenly heard 500 men that were coming in about to swim over the top of me. The swim then became like the high speed spin cycle in the washing machine and I was all but having fun. My only consolation was to wait till I got onto dry land....

Soon as I stepped last out of the water, my friend Jessica yelled to me youre 19 minutes down. I had 80kms on the bike to catch back up....

Goodness, I have been so tired!The week after the Auch triathlon and the 156 mountain ride I jogged once, did a tempo run that about cracked me and in the pouring rain no less a few easy rides, a swim and a round trip to Paris that really dug into my reserves though it was good fun. the week before Lyon I seriously couldnt fathom how I d have the energy to run 21kms....I slept, rode a bit, did one tempo run with athlé632 the club I train with but really had to kick my own butt to finish the distance.

The Auch Triathlon was a bit short for my liking but the prize money was truly worth trying! I had opted for the previous month to test drive ovalish shaped chainrings to see what the fuss was about.
These are probably not bad for specific type of riders but for someone who has spent a lot of time on a fixed gear I really felt like I lost time on them on certain courses....