Pyreness - the preparation

We have been in Pryeness now for 4-5 days preparing for the race on Monday. I feel like the support crew trailing behind in the car or up front taking photos. We have been tackling different parts of the course day by day, getting to know it, knowing what is hard and what is easy. Below is the race profile.

Having driven the course now, I can say it is an amazing leg. It has some really beautiful climbs (and steep) that will test the riders.

I generally just follow him up the climbs but wait for him at the top and give him a new bottle of water and his helmet for the decents. The decents are crazy. It would be easy to kill yourself. We passed a memorial for one of the riders who died in 1995.

The days have been relatively cool which has been good for the climbs. We have done them in the middle of the day.

However yesterday it heated up. There wasn`t a cloud in the sky and it was hot. Luckily we are tampering at the moment with only a couple of days to go so we aren`t all that active. We are just fueling up and relaxing.

The camp ground has a pool so we spent a fair bit of time yesterday in and out. I am acting as head cook at the moment, cooking up a lot of pasta and rice. Unfortunately, all I am doing is sitting on my arse most of the days so I have to watch myself I don`t eat as much.

It was hot yesterday and will be again today. The forecast for Monday also looks hot so it could be testing. Luckily though, the race starts at 7 in the morning so they can get through half the race before it starts heating up. The hard climbs are the later ones though.

The following picture is heading into the finish. It is a beautiful place. I would love to fly here. And just to rub it in, when we were chilling out by the lake afterwards, we watched a tandem glider fly down.

So now we wait, relax, read a truckload and eat.