Sunday 4th March 2012
Cycling
02:07:13 - 30.02 (14.20 MPH /
HR Zone 2 / 78% Max / Cadence 80rpm)
I broke my duck today of non training for a whole week. Because of the Chest infection / cough type thing I had picked up I missed the whole of last week's training. That was a nightmare and I really felt like I needed to A) Get back in to training again, B) Check to see if the chest would hold up to the activity and C) clear the demons of inactivity.
I purposely chose to do a shorter ride than my plan said I should do, as I wanted to break back in again but not risk doing myself any major harm.
So . . all in all I am reasonably pleased with the way things went, even though I coughed and gagged quite a bit of the way round and brought up some fairly unpleasant substances, NICE!!
At least I am on the road again and I plan to get back to a full week of training next week. I am going to be positive about the near two week lay off and and focus more on the 17 weeks still to go and the need to get a really strong run of training in.
To that end I have decided to drop from 3 swims per week to 2 and swap one for an extra bike session. I am thinking of doing this as a Hill session each week and using it to ride up and down a few steep hills at home and build strength. The better weather and brighter mornings and evening should allow me to do a lot more outdoor riding now instead of Turbo session, which will be great. I am well motivated for the next 17 weeks - and suddenly it doesn't seem all that long.
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