- recon swim course (beach, exit, bouys, where sun is, etc) and for the brave ones go in for a dip. It was about 9 degrees with threat of rain so only a couple of takers (me, I went for a 30min hard bike ride rather than get cold)
-recon run course, run the first 2k and the last 4k of the 10k loop, very much like elk lake mainly trail around the lake. the over-hanging tree branches will protect us from rain or sun.
- interesting doing a bike-run-bike I am not sued to that. so legs actually feel a little trashed even though the mileage and speed were minimal.
Back to hotel for quick bagged lunch then 4 of us (Sharon, myself and Rick Gammie and partner Chris from Courtney area) took their rented car and re-drove the bike course.
As we became peckish, we started to look for a place, specifically a bakery, as we went thru little village after little village. For 2 hours we found no bakeries, and when we found like a COOP grocery store, closed noon-3 as was the ice cream place. We stopped a guy, he said ya bakery like 10k down the road. Nope.
All morning we see the locals everywhere and they be carrying their baguette. Walking, biking, running, everywhere all with baguette yet we cannot find a bakery anywhere.
Finally we find an open bakery like back at the 1st village we went thru after leaving Belfort and our mind quickly forgot about baguettes and we had some fantastic quiche and a cheese filled eclair.
Next event is the team greet and meet followed by race briefing.
sounds like 'Bike to Work' week ;) Good Luck Tim!
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