It's been a few weeks since blogging last - triathlon definitely takes up more time than running. Lots has happened since I last blogged, so I'll try to keep it brief.
I had a decent week of training after Port Mac 70.3. Whilst I wanted to recover well and set myself up for my first Olympic distance race a week later, my focus is on IM WA. I trained right through the week and went in without a taper. It was a relatively low key race so I didn't think I'd embarass myself.
2:12:37 10th overall, 2nd 30-34.
My timing chip must have malfunctioned because all I got was a swim time and a finish time. The swim was tough and very choppy - I struggled through in 27mins including transition (which includes about 10 flights of stairs up from the beach). T1 wasn't great, but on the bike, I put the hammer down. My aim was to try and totally burn up my legs and leave nothing for the run. I went hard and spent the whole time passing people (partly because I was in the last wave again). The course isn't flat and I found it tough - I'm simply not used to riding at 37kph for any length of time. I came in a little disappointed, but by comparison to others, I rode well, about 1:07 moving time. It doesn't seem to matter what I do on the bike, I always seem to have the legs to run, so I slipped into a great rhythm, overtaking heaps more people. No idea what time I ran. One mess up was a volunteer sending me the wrong way! Partly my own fault, I should have known the course.
I went fairly easy for the week following the race, but still chalked up 14km swimming, 300km riding and 75km running. Key session was a 100km TT on Saturday which included 1 x 1hr and 2 x 30mins at race pace + 20%. I smashed it! On top of that, I ran off the bike - 30km progressive, getting quicker every 10km, 4:55s, 4:37s, 3:55s.
Another big week this week - up at 4:30 this morning for 5km swimming because I had a meeting until 7:30! Only 1 more hard week after this week before taper time. Who knows how I'll go at J P Morgan with all the km's in my legs?
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