If time travel were possible it would be so handy for athletes as we have all made wrong decisions to train when ill or injured etc and it seems even with experience it is such a hard decision to back off or dare I say it ' REST' for a few days!
Anyway, good week on the whole for me.
A real positive is I am back running, 2 treadmill runs in the week with no reaction and a 65 mins road run today. I am pretty proud of myself over the past few weeks as I feel I have made good decisions, one when I had a cold and also the management of my achilles. I managed both these situations well, and as a results didn't lose any extra training time, when it would have been easy to not listen to my body carry on as normal and lost plenty of training time. I know for a fact that having my long term knee injury totally changed my approach to training and I am much more flexible and intuitive with my training. Also aqua-running is great, and I will swap some running into the water still to make sure my achilles is 100%. ( everyone should get an aqua belt!)
Overall did 17hrs training, clocked up 11hrs biking ( 2 turbos / 2 outside rides) , 2.5hrs running and 3.5 hrs swimming.
This weekend has been enjoyable, big group of our clubs Ironman Wales crew did the Mad Jack Audax ride. 122km total, 2660m total climbing, crap weather, out for 6hrs with a ride time of 5:20, so the rest must have been chatting or eating at the feed stations! I wouldn't want to cycle in that weather again soon but I do like training with our crew, and there was some great banter to save us all from crying!
Today was very steady, a technique based swim session with SC and JP and a 65 min steady run with Jamie and JP which finished off a good week.
Legs are tired, but I have eaten well and will take it steady for a couple of days to make sure my body recovers from this week.
Brother's baby due any day, GC off for a week. There is still a slim chance of getting away to La Santa in March,but it will have to be a last minute decision.
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