End of Week 14

Friday
Run 48 min

Saturday
Lake Swim 1hour
Bike – 65 km in 3hours

Met up with Zippy and Pip for an early morning lake swim followed by a little TOSH action.

We went to a new local lake for the swim, it was great and will defo be going there again. Water not too cold, and great changing facilities.

We then drove out to Cobham, dumped the cars and headed to the hills. Pip and I planned to do the smaller loop of the TOSH, which takes in some terrible climbs. OK, maybe only one really terrible one, but plenty of up-downs.

The killer hill is one called Winterfold, with a gradient of 21%, I ended up having to use the little chain ring for the last bit as I just couldn’t keep those pedals turning, and my HR was maxing out at 171 bpm. What an awful hill, I had nightmares….

Sunday
Run 2 X 42 min

Sunday was set-up day for our clubs race series. So ran there and back. It took every bit of my resolve to do the second run. And felt really low when I got home. But then Bronson reminded me that I was probably really tired from the previous day, so that made me feel a bit better.

I was supposed to do a session on Monday afternoon, but was just way to knackered to even consider it. But all in all, happy with a 10 hour plus week, so can’t complain.
The cycling and swimming are feeling great at the moment, the run…not. Feels terrible, my legs just feel really heavy and I just have no speed. I just plod through the runs at the moment. I hope things improve before the race, else, it’s going to be pain and agony the whole way!!!