Nepean - Tick

Monday – Trying to work out what Sunday’s result actually means.

Ø  Bike - At the start of this bloggy thing I noted that I didn’t have any bike speed and didn’t even have the leg power on the bike to elevate my heart rate past 130. While there is always room for improvement, the problem is largely in the process of being solved. I will be OK for this by January/February.

Ø  I don’t feel that my stroke mechanics are all that bad. The problem really is a function of too few sessions, with each being of too short a duration, and  with too low an intensity. Current training plan should see this OK enough to get me through the events that I have planned.

Ø  Run. Run is a big problem. Technique seems to be holding up OK, but the extended period (years now really) of calf and achilles problems has made me gun shy about both distance and intensity, and it showed on up badly on Sunday. Wasn’t all that tired or fatigued, but was dropping places everywhere. This will be the primary focus of my next 3 months

Sunday – Nepean Tri. Good to be out there racing again, actually really freakin’ good. Not a very flash result but not the total disaster that it well could have been, and certainly better than I was entitled to. But for a “Dude where’s my car” moment in T1, and a very weak run, I’m happy with my result. Rode pretty well I recon,

Only realized on Sunday that Canberra is also likely to be a non-wet-suit swim. 1.8km, oh dear God.

My first thoughts are that my swim result from the weekend is only 11.9% worse than my best. Given I have not done much swim training, I thought that was pretty handy. But then a quick check of the old training records reveals that my current swim training pattern is only marginally less than normal.

The Canberra swim would be 80% further then I have ever swum without a wet-suit – Will be cramming.

Saturday – Good solid ride through the turf farms with Ads, Mango and Benno 68km round trip. Nice enough

Friday – Am run around the river. Only 7.2k, slow as, and it is telling me that Sunday’s tri-run is going to be ugly.

                Pm – 45min on tt bike. Legs are blasted from this morning’s slow 7.2k run. This is shaping up badly