So crash week number 2.
Monday - easy run when we finally got home after getting very confused with french diversions. Decided to take a different route, see some sights, stop somewhere nice for early lunch as had plenty of time to spare. Diversions and Road closures everywhere -Travelled a zillion extra miles, missed ferry, had to wait 2 hours for the next!
Tuesday - Yoga, eating, sleeping, yoga, eating and massage- The rest day
Wednesday - 60 min swim with 400m efforts, 2.5 hour steady bike, 70 min run with last 10 mins tempo. Legs felt gre
at! Must be Nocte and Green and Black's Hot Chocolate combo! And my cupboard full of Science in Sport Goodies that keep me going strong.Thursday - 5 hour bike (wet and windy, came home looking like a drowned rat). I was riding through a couple of inches of water on one stretch of road. Looping past home about 4:20 into ride the heavens opened. Already very cold and wet, now my chain started squeeking. Tempted by the warmth of home, swapped tarmac for turbo for the last 40 mins. Treadmill run with steady efforts, recovery in the sauna between. Everyone in the gym must have thought i was a fruit loop. Again a very wet session - but this time sweaty wet, not rain wet! The aim, to get used to being in the heat, before i start exercising in my heat acclimatisation chamber! Bathroom, with wallpaper stripper running to create heat and humidity - are my instructions from the Dr Jamie Pringle.
Friday - 60 min swim, 3 hour bike (even wetter and windier- I recon i was carrying an extra 5kg of water just in my overshoes) What doesn't break me, will make me stronger! - apparently!
Forcast for the weekend dosen't look much better - rain and wind c
ontinues. On the positive side it's giving my killer sunburn from racing on sunday a chance to heal.
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