Karen writes: Plan, what plan?
Last week was a funny week, it was recovery from the not-insignificant effort of riding round Lake Taupo, but it was also about ramping up the triathlon aspect of training to get ready for the Rotorua half Ironman which is now just 2 weeks away. I ended up doing - Monday 20 min sea swim, Tuesday 30 min run, Wednesday 41 min swim/run (event), Thursday off, Friday 90 min hill run/30 min spin, Saturday 2 hr bike-ride, and Sunday 2 1/4 hour bush run. Not enough of the right things would be the way to summarise that effort.
As usual the hardest part is fitting in what you need to do, and last week was a classic, things like meetings, children's activities, inconvenient tides, and trying to separate the longer activities out meant training didn't go as planned. Take the bikeride on Saturday evening which was shorter than it was meant to be because of available time, it was nice enough but sluggish after a challenging mid-distance run the day before. Then I followed the cycle up with the weekly long run on the following morning, Sunday, and I know that sort of short-change never works, today I am feeling the effects with low energy and lacklustre muscles.
In earlier days with 2 weeks to go before an event this would be time to scale the training back, now we are back on the Ironman track again, the half Ironman is classified as 'training'. This means there is no excuse for not keeping on building this week and then taking things just a bit easy in the week before the event. But guess what, meetings, children's school activities, family things, and I am guaranteed that the reality will look NOTHING like the plan. Again.
And I did have Kate's cycle helmet in the boot of the car. If she hadn't had a loan one available that could very well have constituted training sabotage...wonder if she would think it was me if her front wheel disappeared?
As usual the hardest part is fitting in what you need to do, and last week was a classic, things like meetings, children's activities, inconvenient tides, and trying to separate the longer activities out meant training didn't go as planned. Take the bikeride on Saturday evening which was shorter than it was meant to be because of available time, it was nice enough but sluggish after a challenging mid-distance run the day before. Then I followed the cycle up with the weekly long run on the following morning, Sunday, and I know that sort of short-change never works, today I am feeling the effects with low energy and lacklustre muscles.
In earlier days with 2 weeks to go before an event this would be time to scale the training back, now we are back on the Ironman track again, the half Ironman is classified as 'training'. This means there is no excuse for not keeping on building this week and then taking things just a bit easy in the week before the event. But guess what, meetings, children's school activities, family things, and I am guaranteed that the reality will look NOTHING like the plan. Again.
And I did have Kate's cycle helmet in the boot of the car. If she hadn't had a loan one available that could very well have constituted training sabotage...wonder if she would think it was me if her front wheel disappeared?
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