After last weekends training I commuted to work 3 days by bike, giving another 135 mile on the road, I swam Monday and Tuesday lunch and on Wednesday I finished at lunch to cycle back to Market Rasen but not to go home, to do the Lincs league cross country race. I felt tired as I was on day 4 of my training without rest but set off near the front of the field, I was running well on the first lap and moved up into 2nd place briefly and was battling with 2 others for the position. All was going well until the top of the climb on lap 2 when I felt quite ill and after about 100 meters of feeling ill proceeded to throw up a large amount of fluid. I didn't really feel much better afterwards but continued on to the finish although I had lost the pace a bit and ended up finishing 7th. Not really the result I was after but a good days training, after the race I got my bike gear back on and cycled the 1.5 mile home. Thursday was an easy day with just a swim at lunch as I'd drove to work and decided I would drive Friday as well because I had planned a long mountain bike ride for Saturday. Friday I ran 5 mile before work and swam at lunch but the swim was tiring after being bullied by the physio as my shoulder still isn't 100% yet from the crash 10 weeks ago. Saturday morning was very cold and crisp, I checked my planned route on the map (putting the map in my back pack just in case) and set out. Once the sun came out it was glorious, I really enjoyed the ride covering 38 miles in 3 hours 20. Sunday was planned for a 10 mile run with a 1 hour turbo effort later in the day, again it was cold and frosty when I set out on the run but somehow I missed a turn onto the viking way footpath so ended up on a longer route (hilly loop about 35% off road) and picked up part of the previous days mountain bike loop extending my run to 17.25 miles @ 6:50 average. At the time of writing this update I am undecided about the 1 hour turbo session? I think I might can it and save it for tomorrow evening after work or possibly get up early and do it before I drive in in the morning. I have now entered the Dambuster Duathlon on the 10th March, this will be my first race of the year, I still havn't decided what other races I will do yet.
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As soon as you come off this big block of training, you will fly! It will be good for you to bring some faster pace into your long runs . . . I mean, 6:50 miling for a 17 mile run with tired legs must make you feel terrible . . . . Ahem . . .
The plan is to inject some faster runs starting end of Jan which should work well for Dambuster duathlon in March, a couple of duathlon brick sessions penciled in for the warm weather in Lanza too.
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