It's my A race of the year on Sunday and I'm having a little panic about my poor preparation since Bala. I just haven't managed the volume of training that I wanted to, although what I have managed has been good quality. I have been doing a lot of running (by my low standards) and have managed to lose a kilo so it's not all bad, I've even been doing some swimming. But I've just not been getting out on the bike, which has been bothering me.
So it's now taper week so what do I do? Turn the screw on the bike. Yep, entirely sensible thing to do that. No running at all, swimming every morning and cycling every evening. Monday was a 2 x 20 min Level 3 session, Tuesday was out on the road on my TT bike doing seated sprint efforts, and this evening was 4 x 6 min Level 4 session. All good quality stuff and the sessions were kept fairly short so not to wear me out. Legs feel really good at the moment, having lost the heavy, lead weight feeling they had when I ran 5 days in one week.
Tomorrow I have another swim and an easy recovery spin on the bike. Friday will be a complete day of rest. Saturday will be another easy ride with some short bursts at race pace and then Sunday is race day - the CowMan half ironman distance race at Emberton Park near Bedford, leg 2 in my UK HIM Tour.
Fingers crossed for a dry day with no wind; what are the chances of that?
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3 comments:
Go T Man.....Go T Man.......Go T Man!! A sensible approach to the race would be thrash the bike and work into the run aiming for a negative split. Says me, who hardly ever manages anything sensible!!
I think you'll be fine on the day. It is amazing how the body retains its MMR i'm now back doing 4:30 pace for over an hour and that was just after 2 scheduled runs since feb.
Don't thrash it just relax and enjoy the ride.
good luck for the weekend mate, we can compare how wet we got and how windy it was :-( have a good one mate.
Daz
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