In Triathlon Mode: TOBOGGAN MEUDONNAIS

Monday, 20 October 2014

TOBOGGAN MEUDONNAIS

"I also own a Ferrari"

Last sunday, I met at 8:15am in Place de Clichy with my EPPG mate Hugues. We headed to te south of Paris in direction of Meudon to participate to the Toboggan Meudonnais. We registered for the 75K distance.

I did not really asked myself why this cyclosportive was called "toboggan" but it became quite obvious after the first few hills! Having cycled around 70km the previous day, I suffered during the first 40km of our ride...after a pause, an energy gel and Hugues adjusting the position of my saddle, my strengths came back and I really enjoyed the rest of the way.

At some point I forgot to start my cardio watch so I am missing a few km but we almost cycled 100km in total. It's my second longest distance on a bike after the Little lumpy ride I did back in the UK in 2011 which was 120 something km. I'm quite happy because today my legs are fine! I'm hoping that the weather will be as nice next weekend so that I can go on my bike again.

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What's a triathlon?

Triathlon is a sport that combines three disciplines: swimming, cycling and running. The purpose is to complete a set distance in each discipline successively and as quickly as possible. Each component of the triathlon is timed including 'transitions' and the winner is the person completing the whole event in the shortest time.

There are several distances in triathlon. The shortest distance you can find is called Super Sprint (400 m swim, 10 km bike, 2.5 km run). The distances recognised internationally by triathlon's federations are the Sprint Distance (750 m swim, 20 km bike, 5km run), the Intermediate Distance (aka Standard or Olympic Distance) (1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, 10 km run), the Long Course (1.9 km swim, 90 km bike, 21,1 km run) and the Ultra Distance, aka Ironman (3.8 km swim, 180 km bike, 42.2 km run).