Gerard Terwisscha van Scheltinga
I'm a 46 year old
triathlete, living in the Netherlands,
married, two kids, working as student counsellor with medical students. I've
been doing triathlons since 1986, have completed nearly 200 races, of which 23 over the ironman
distance. Raced Roth, Almere, Lanzarote, Florida, the Norseman etc. My personal best is
9.38. The next challenge is the a small ironman distance race in
Germany on June 15 and the world
championships long distance in Almere in August. Use PC's since november 2005, almost
exclusively. Mostly ride 150-300 k's a week. Race on normal
cranks.
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PR or PR?
In my bio I state that my PR was 9.38, but in my latest blog I told you about a new PR of 9.39. So whats up? My PR is 9.38, but to be honest that time was set in a race with a bike course of only 172/175 k. I've always felt a little uneasy about that time. But its in the books, right. This last course was bona fide though. Also, my actual finish time last Saturday was under 9.39, but in the confusion I forgot to press my timechip against this rather old fashioned time measuring device (we had to carry a chip like watch thing on our right wrist). Somebody had to more or less take me by the hand and make me press the chip, as I was still a little dazed. The run time was a real PR though, never ran faster in a long distance triathlon. I did 3.21 once, but that was in 1989. Way before powercranks were invented.
