Damo did the 50km super challenge and finished in the main bunch, who were chasing a four-man breakaway nearly right from the get go. Still, a great effort, considering loads of riders got pulled off course for not being fast enough. Twas a great day out being a spectator,… but, of course, not before an ass-ripping, leg-burning, lung-busting 12k track workout and 1.5k easy swim.
Been a bit crazy around here lately, so very sorry for the radio silence. It’s been a pretty easy week on the training front though (hence why it’s called an easy week):
Monday — Rest day. Biked to work.
Tuesday — Run 8k easy.
Wednesday — Hill intervals, about 11k total (including 4x Mt Sinai loop).
Thursday — Run 12k easy. Biked to work.
Friday — Swim with SportInc, 3.6k total (600WU, 4×100 drill, 8×50, 5×200 @4.00, 5×200 @3.50, 200CD). Biked to work.
CycleWorx tomorrow and an easy longish run on Sunday.
Ok, time to get back to work. But I shall leave you with something pretty damn cool from the New York Times.
It’s nearly coming to an end, just one day to go, one run and maybe a swim. The big training week has gone pretty well so far, and I’m looking forward to an easy week before starting my next four-week cycle.
The runs went as planned. Monday I did 6×1,000m intervals at the track (on 200m jog rest) sandwiched between two 5km-or-so runs to and from the track. Tuesday was just a short swim — 1,000m easy, 5×100m H, 100m CD — this, in preparation for Wednesday’s four-hour run. That went surprisingly well, 43km covered in 3h 50min actual moving time, and a faster second-half than the first. Thursday I thought the legs might be sore but they were actually pretty okay, so I did an easy 6k on the tready and some core exercises. Friday wasn’t too tiring either — stroke correction with SportInc, with more time spent laughing than swimming.
And this morning was the usual CycleWorx ride, though I only managed 115k of the 130k, because I had a flat at Tuas after drafting a truck going over 60km/h for a few km. Fixed the flat with the help of David (thanks for stopping!), as I waved the peloton on. Didn’t want to make some 30 riders wait for me, so I skipped the “hockey stick” portion of our ride to catch up with them. Overall it was a thorougly enjoyable ride, the pace about 2-3km/h slower on average compared to last week.
And speaking of crunch…
Jaw-broken-bones
Thanks to the nice folks at Oakley for sorting a replacement frame out! The glasses got run over by a truck at Kranji. Damn those sunnies are made tough though — neither the frame nor lenses cracked. Some parts bent or came loose, but that’s about it…
Was researching for a story today when I came across this.
Damn that is creepy. Fortunately I have no affinity for frog legs.
Though it can be said that my legs right now are twitchin’ and itchin’ at the thought of my long run tomorrow. Been feeling great in training and getting faster each time. The tough part is to keep this feeling going till race day.
Salt anyone?