It was great to see the Aussie Pros do so well again. Crowie , you're amazing and what a run by Jacobs coming in 2nd. Chrissie Wellington is one of my idols , but would have loved Melinda Carfrae to beat her. She came in 2nd and certainly gave Chrissie a run for her money!!!
Well with another solid week of training under my belt, no illnesses coughs or colds and no injuries... I have nothing to complain about!
Monday morning I managed to get a good 3kms in at the pool and in the afternoon a 21km run.
Tuesday is generally a ride in the morning but for the first time in 10 weeks the program was blank...yay a sleep in till 6. Gotta love it! In the evening we had another solid interval session at the track. With Brad away for the next 3 weeks in Tasmania for a family holiday I was responsible for letting everyone in on the session. 12oom warm up, Stretch, followed by 800m build and then straight into the main set. This week we were running at our threshold pace. 5mins on 1min active recovery, 10min on 2min, 15min on 3min rec, 10min on 2, 5 then 1. All up 45 mins at threshold pace. I managed 12.5 kms with some of the faster guys and girls getting up to 14 to 15kms. As I said a solid session.
Wednesday 2.7k in the pool and the beloved windtrainer session in the evening that went for 74mins.
Thurs morning we had another multi brick . Lisa had left her bike and trainer here from the night before and Fiona got here early to set up. So with Lisa, Fiona, Will and myself , at 4.30 am in the morning we got to it!!! 20mins on the bike with a 10min run off the bike ..3 times. One and a half hours of your heart feeling like it wants to jump out of your chest!! It's meant to be hard. I did find it a little difficult getting my heart rate up at the beginning but that soon changed and it stayed up there for the rest of the session.
I got to swimming early on Friday morning as I wanted to get in a good 800 to 1k in before squad started.I'm glad I did as the set was unusually short with lots of breaststroke and back stroke ( which I am hopeless at)... so all up a 3.2k set.
Saturday morning was looking beautiful. We can actually see what we're doing now instead of trying to get organised in the dark and it was my first ride without arm warmers with the minimum around 15 degrees. We headed south again for 110km ride, with 3 x 20min efforts . We managed to get 2 of the efforts in before we were homeward bound. I was really happy with my ride today managing to hold an average of 33.3 which I think is my best ever!!! Woo hoo!! Then it was off the bike for a 10km run up to the beautiful Matilda Bay and back... managing to hold my T Pace for the duration... so one happy girl.
Saturday night we were off to an engagement party for a lovely young lady Emma and her fiance Dean . We have known Em since before she was born. Will and I met her Mum and Dad at maternity classes 23 years ago and have remained close friends ever since. We had a lovely night so I was disappointed that we had to leave early. But Emma totally understood as her fiance Dean is an extremely good cyclist , just coming back from Belgium where he was 7th overall at a Time Trial race there.
By the time we got home and in bed it was 11 so it was straight to bed to get up again at 4.45 for another 110k on the bike!!
We had decided to do the freeway south again and today could not have been any more different to yesterday. Today's ride was not going to be pleasant. About 5kms into the ride it started to sprinkle , then rain, heavier and heavier..... then it started to feel like hail it was hurting us that much. It was hard to see and there were massive puddles ( more like lakes!!) along the path. It was so cold we couldn't feel our legs and fingers and all the food in my bento box turned to mush!! But we rallied on, even managing to keep our sense of humour !
As Sir Winston Churchill said.....
Never give in
Never give in
Never ,never, never
Never give in....
There is a rogue magpie along that path who comes at you with a lot of aggression. Will was about a 100m in front of us and we could see this magpie swoop at him about 4 times.... so the 3 of us (June, Lisa and myself) moved in close together and when we got to the Magpie we just screamed at it (girlie screams!!) .....it didn't even leave the wall!!!. Hopefully we have frightened him off foreverrrrr!! ( please don't report us to the RSPCA.... I can assure you , no animal was harmed in the story!)
So we made it back , 110kms done. We were soaked thru, black from all the dirt, covered in sand. I even had a stick in my mouth!!!! and we still managed 31.2 k average which we were pretty chuffed with.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that I might be able to squeeze a Nanna nap in somewhere this arvo but am not liking my chances...Never mind!
Hope your week has been a good one. Stay happy and thanks for popping by!!!
Totals for the week
Swim... 8.9kms...3hrs 30mins
Bike...287kms...9hrs 5mins
Run...49.5kms...4hrs 23mins
Core...30mins
Total 17hrs and 28mins
Nice post!! :)
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