And so it begins

Great, so now that I have confirmed that I am actually in week 12, I can have another look at the schedule and plan the last few weeks of training.

Basically I should be doing some speedwork, and some recovery sessions.

Yeah right...what I am going to do is, the speed sessions for the run and the bike. I'll do the bike ones on my turbo at home, and I'll do the club track sessions. I do enough swimming speedwork so not worried about that.

Then I'll be doing some brick sessions to get the legs used to running after the cycle. My first attempt at this was rubish but this will improve with a bit of luck.

Recovery sessions, I plain and simply do not have time for this....so, no can do!!!

I haven't tried swimming in the wetsuite yet...maybe next week....

I did however do the club track session, I was not looking forward to this as a) I'm a crap runner, b) I turn into an even crappier runner on a track, c) I thought I'd be really stiff afterwards.

Wednesday
Run
Track session
warmup, cool down - 4laps = 1,6km
8X400m = 3,2km slowest 1:45, fastest 1:30

And it went really well. My target was 7 x 400m on 1:54, and I managed 8 x 400m on around 1:36. My heart rate rocketed to 176 as expected on a hard sprint, but I was able to bang 'em all out without too much trouble. I usually hate track sessions and am constantly wishing for the clock to spend the hour. But Wednesday went fine, I wasn't the slowest, and I could manage the whole set, usually I have to sit some out. Also yesterday, no stiffness. My calves felt a bit tight, but no more then after my usual runs. So very happy with that. So maybe all this base business is paying off....yippee for me!!!