Well let’s seee know…
After Wednesday’s run, I didn’t do much, which is very bad. I was hoping on having a big catch up weekend over Easter as we were holidaying on the Isle of Wight. It didn’t go exactly to plan. I did no running and only two bike rides. But I can’t complain!!!
Saturday - Bike
90km in 3hr 40
http://www.sanoodi.com/route/plodder/isle-of-wight-90km/2007-04-07/00-00-00/
I set of early on Saturday morning and managed to cycle the whole way around the IOW, I went Clockwise from Bembridge towards Freshwater, then back via Yarmouth to Newport, then on to Ryde, then back to Bembridge. 90km in 3hr 40, which doesn’t sound great but considering all the climbing I did, I’m quite happy. IOW is anything but flat. There were no really terrible hills, I could get up all of them ok, but there were just a lot of them, so the legs felt really tired by halfway.
These pics where taken from the top of the highest climb... a nasty hill just outside on Ventnor.
Monday I did a shorter ride, 37km in around 1hr 30 min, just from Bembridge to the Ferry at East Cowes. I also had one of those stupid falls…i.e. can’t manage-to-unclip-in-time type ones. So have 3 bruises to show for it…nice!!!
Since returning from IOW, I’ve been doing lots of running, to catch up, and also because there has been no swimming this week. Runs look like this:
Tuesday
7km in 46 mins
Wednesday
12,8km in 1hr 20
Thursday
7,6km in 48 mins
I had a bit of a rude awakening on Wednesday, I took a closer look at the run course for the half Ironman and discovered that the short sharp elevation on the run route is in fact a staircase… that we have to do 3 times…dammit. My knees don’t do stairs very well. So on my long run, I went over every staircase I could find. And I’m happy to report it wasn’t as bad as I thought. My HR does go up, but as long as I take one stair at a time, my knees hold, so very happy with that!!!
Lots of cycling planned for the weekend…I hope!!!
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