Jeff's Sporting Life: Rundle's Revenge MTB XC Marathon Race 2014 @ Canmore

Saturday June 21st, I finished 20th place out of 42 in Solo Open Men Results, Overall I was 40th out of 68 for solo open and master open men category. It took me 4hrs 7mins, (Lap1= 59mins) (Lap2= 1hr) (Lap3= 1hr 3mins) (Lap4= 1hr 4mins) I went a total of 50 Kms. Total elevation gain 4,423 Feet. My average heart rate was 166 bpm and max was 193 bpm. My first lap was my fastest. The race was held at the Canmore Nordic Centre. The temperature was 10 deg C for the 8:00am start and when I finished it was 18 deg C. It had rained hard the night before so the course that consisted of some double track and single track was wet in some sections and I struggles on the down hill off camber root sections, I road it but not really fast. I had to stop on lap three and lap four for a nature break. I felt really strong on the long climbs. My legs got a bit sore on the first half of my last lap and then they recovered on the last six kms of that lap. A huge thanks to Transrockies for putting on the race and all the volunteers for all their effort to make this race a success.