Canberra Half and disk wheels

Friday – 25km on the M7 path. Alway7s wondered what $$$ spends give up what advantage, and whether a disk made much. IT DOES, it is a freakin’ awesome.

Gave the (borrowed) HED disk a whirl. What a weapon. Flying along the path, though only loosely in control whenever any winds came up. Though I would end up wrapped around the steel railings a few time. Awesome stuff though, like an amusement park ride.

Saturday – Rest day

Sunday – Canberra Half

A decent race in the end.

Felt horribly uncomfortable in the water. Bought new goggles the day before (beginner’s mistake) and didn’t have them tight enough. Leaked like crazy, to the point where I was worried my contacts would float off inside, and I’d be stuck in the middle of the lake wondering which way the shore was. Ended up floating on my back a few times to adjust. Post race, the time was OKish, compared to the normal benchmarks. Technique was everywhere also. All the things I have been working on in the swim went out the window.

Would like to be able to go back in time and have that swim again, but execution is something you learn. Definitely need to address this though, somehow.

Bike started in the middle of the storm, and it was pretty dangerous really. Even thought of bailing out. Hung in though and speed came pretty easily. Scary in parts, and the course is ridiculously narrow in places, was yelling “on your right” a lot. In the end I was reasonably happy with the ride, but of concern is that I didn’t really “endure”. I was fading on the last lap even though I hadn’t really gone that hard on the first two laps. Long rides under pressure are needed here I suspect, but that is hardly an epiphany.

Run was what I expected. Slow. Intention was to start running and see if calf held up. Actually felt quite reasonable rolling around at 5:30, but even this got very hard by the end. No expectation of staying strong here though. There is no escaping the need for some miles. Won’t be able to / attempt to go any harder than 5:15/5:30 for 20 weeks, but need to be ale to hold it down for 3.5 hours.

All in all, not a bad day. Will take it and keep chugging.

W