For the first time since mid – October (see Raid Uppsala report), I’m back in race mode. I’ve recovered and trained in Nov/Dec. Now it’s time to test the body, just 4 weeks before the Coast to Coast.

The Mountain Man Race has a similar format to the C2C. The start line is only a few km’s away and the order of the disciplines is similar. It gives a chance to test transition tactics, among other things. The race looks like this:

• 500 m run to the road bikes (<2 min)
• 33 km road bike (50 min)
• 19 km mountain run, 1,000 vertical meters (2 hrs  … +/- 30 min?)
• 8 km downhill mountain bike (15 min)
• 25 km downriver paddle (1.5 hrs)

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Expected time is somewhere around 5 hrs.

We bike up the coast (left of photo), then run over the high mountains in the background (far left) and the race finishes with a paddle down the river (far right), where we take a “left turn” in to the lagoon, instead of continuing out to the ocean.

The run portion of the race is supposed to be spectacular, as it follows an old gold miner’s trail from the 1850s (There is also a “run only” race for those who don’t like to paddle and bike). I managed to pester the race director enough until he sent me this profile, so at least I have some idea of what to expect. Steep start! After the 19 km mark we ride our mountain bikes down to the river.

 

There is a cool promo video for the race on the race website, which shows this picture from a helicopter of the run section 

The single track on the 19 km run section.

First-time races are tricky since I don’t have any past results to review. I can predict my times for each leg of the Åre Extreme Challenge or the Coast to Coast but I’m flying blind with this race. But so is everybody else. To be safe, I’m bringing a few extra Squeezy gels on each leg in case it becomes a 7 hr epic instead of a nice 5 hr multisport race.

Why race?

The conventional wisdom says to spend as much time as you can training on the C2C course in the weeks before that race. But racing is sometimes more important than training. One of my mistakes last year was that I never pushed my body hard in a race before C2C. And my result showed it (In contrast, I won the Gold Rush race in NZ 6 weeks after C2C because I had done a lot of racing before that event). Racing is one of those things you want “Goldilocks” style (or Lagom på svenska) – not too much and not too little. But at the right dose, training races can help you peak for your priority race.

Time to get some rest, 4 am wake up tmw morning …

Scott