I have diligently been working on my new way of swimming starting with my kick and head/breathing position. Hopefully I no longer look like a tadpole searching for food on the top of the water followed by a duck looking for food underneath me.
Can't say I have noticed that I am swimming faster but hopefully I am swimming better which will mean faster over a long period. I did the Kohi swim last week and while my times there are usually slow I was maybe a bit faster compared with the people I usually exit the water with.
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| Nothing to do with swimming but a photo of a happy doggy. She did run laps around the pool while I was swimming so maybe that's why she needed a nap |
Last week was a huge week on the bike of 15 hours BOOM! This was due to a little trip down to Taupo to ride what was supposed to be the full bike course. I started out with gay abandon (as I do) but quickly felt that the leggies did not feel so good. I pressed on hoping they would feel ok and while my power was ok I just felt really wasted and after about an hour my back started to hurt from being on my bike which never really happens. I got to the end of the first lap 14 minutes slower than in our Pain and Suffering Camp the week before and feeling exhausted and dejected. Sadly Davo had already been and gone so I swapped my bottles and headed out again. After about 10 minutes I came to the realization that I just couldn't do it anymore, all I wanted to do was lie down on the side of the road preferably in the fetal position. I think I was having a physical and mental meltdown.
I made it up to the racecourse where I knew there were some nice grassy bits to lie on and saw Davo circling around the intersection. Turns out he wasn't having the funnest time either so after a brief discussion we decided that one lap was enough.
Weak.
Pretty disappointed in myself for giving in to my mental demons, yes I was feeling like crap but once the little voice said "it's ok, stop and have a lie down" then I was gone mentally. I know that physically I could have done the second lap but it would have taken a long time and I would have hated it and being so close to Ironman I don't want to thrash myself when I am not feeling good BUT I shouldn't be so weak in the head.
Time to revisit "The Triathlete's Guide to Mental Training" before next weekend I think.
I am not so concerned that I felt so bad riding - it was a bit close to the long ride from the previous weekend and on the recovery day in between was a not so recovery-ish ride trailing behind a former world record holder/Olympic champion who didn't stop talking and hopefully couldn't hear me puffing.
We did a 6 hour ride the weekend just been and I felt much better despite sitting on my bike for 6 hours which I hopefully won't be doing next weekend.
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| Taddy meeting it's identical twin |
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| The fallen Ninja. I then got accusing of snapping photos like an Asian tourist |
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| Powered by Marmite sammies |
Running is going well yay!! My little groin issue seems to have gone and I have managed to progress my long runs nicely. I was very resourceful during last week's long run when I started to develop a blister on the side of my heel. I had just had a Gu so I tried to put the empty Gu packet down the side of my shoe which worked for about a minute and had then moved down into the shoe leaving a sticky trail of choc-mint goodness as it went. I was just coming up to the Kohi yacht club so thought I would see if there was a first aid kit where I could grab a couple of bandaids. There was some housewifey exercise class going on upstairs so I let myself in and had a look though the kitchen to see what I could find. Not sure that I was supposed to be in there but runners in general are pretty harmless (just a bit weird) so thought I would get away with it. Couldn't find any bandaids but did manage to find a latex glove which I anchored under my orthotic and then pulled up to stop the rubbing on the side of the shoe.
Look out MacGyver.
Ran the remaining 14km with minimal issues apart from looking like I had some condoms stashed in my shoe. But I was running so fast no-one would have seen anyway ;)
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| You never know when you might need a condom. so I keep them in my shoe |
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| Looks a bit bleak but was actaully a nice run along the Waikato River trail |
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| How's that weather looking Taupo |
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