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Oyvind's Victorious in Norwegian Cup

Winner of the first Norwegian cup race of 2009!
Saturday 30^th of May was this year’s first Norwegian cup race. It was over the sprint distance, 750m swimming, 20km bike and 5km run.
I haven’t been able to train properly for a while, so I was basically racing for fun without any real hopes of winning… But after swimming 750m on 9min 52sec, which is the best I have done in years, I saw some hope… But I was still over 1min behind the leader!
After the swim it was about 1h rest before we started the bike as the swim was run in heats in a swimming pool. I got to warm up a bit on the bike on the course, so I knew that I had to go for it from the get go! And that I did! And it worked as I caught everyone before I had ridden 10km! After that I rode controlled in front, with all the rest on my tail until the second transition (T2), when a couple of guys past me right before…
Out of T2 one guy was in front with about 5sec. I caught him pretty fast, stayed with him till the turnaround point at 2.5km, and then I made my move! I got 10sec pretty fast and increased till 15sec before the finish!
I’m very happy with the result as everything went much better than in a long time! Even though I have had serious allergy problems and been sick since I came home from New Zealand! So I guess the base work got done at New Zealand and I’m surviving on that… The good thing is that everything is better now and I get much better training in!
My splits were 750m: 9.52, 20km: 28.56, 5km and T2: 17.33 and total 56.21. All times are good times for me and the total time is the best I have ever done on a exactly measured sprint distance!
My next races now are Gutenberg triathlon Sunday June 7 and Challenge Kraichgau (Half Ironman distance) Sunday June 14. Kraichgau will be my main goal this spring, and with training getting better I hope for a win both there and in Gutenberg.
Last I would like to thank my family and girlfriend for the support during the race, Oslo Sportslager for supporting me with all my equipment(Polar klokke, Everst sykler, Giro hjelmer, Fast Forward hjul, Orca triathlon drakt og våtdrakt, x-socks, Smith solbriller og Craft tøy), Østmarka IL, M&M Tomrerservice, Laerdal Trevare og Laerdal Sport og Rekreasjon for financial support and Honey Stinger for support with energy bars, gels and fruit smoothies!