Mega-fit Aussie Cameron Wurf stepped off his bike after finishing the well-known 257km Paris-Roubaix cycle race, then promptly ran a 21km half-marathon.
Ineos-Grenadiers rider Wurf, 39, completed 128th – after 6 hours and 11 minutes – within the biking basic on Sunday, which options 54km on cobblestones in northern France.
The Tasmanian completed 22:44 minutes behind the race’s Dutch winner, Mathieu van der Poel.
Lower than three hours later he ran the half-marathon distance in neighboring Belgium, ending in a creditable 1:26:55 hours.
Time for a day without work on Monday? No, he stored up his coaching by biking 50.5km in what he known as a “lunch experience” when he posted on the Strava portal.
“Sunday Brick,” he stated – the phrase brick that means when athletes practice or compete in two or extra disciplines in fast succession.
However Paris-Roubaix, he stated “So bumpy it hurts to pee.”
Wurf is a person of many abilities. A former rower, he competed on the Athens 2004 Olympics and took up biking in 2007, earlier than including the triathlon in 2015.
Two years in the past he gained the Copenhagen Ironman in 7:46:06 hours – 25th on the all-time listing of Ironman instances for the three.86km swimming, 180.2km biking and a full marathon run over 42.195km.
He was fifth on the 2019 Ironman world championships in Hawaii.
