Week Four

It just so happens that I do enjoy writing about myself……

I came across a really good line this week that describes base training, “base training is training to train not training to race” I thought how good is that line. All my training over the past month has been without my heart rate monitor or bike computer. I have just been going completely off time spent training.

Last year when I was training for IMWA, I knew nothing about base training (or triathlon training for that matter) and so I went balls and all into race training and wondered why I suffered two knee injuries, shin splints and basically a poor overall fitness due to poor education into training for something this big. Most free time I had this year has been spent searching the internet and trying to learn as much as I can about what we do.

After killing a small part of myself at the gym early in the week, I decided that this week’s big ride had to be something hardcore (I was thinking of you people reading this blog).  On Wednesday I took off from home on the road bike and headed up to Poatina and climbed the mountain caked with snow. Unfortunately I could only ride 7km up as the road was covered with ice and became too slippery to ride on. It was a disappointing moment when I had to turn around.

Due to working a little over 60 hours this week (bloody bills, mortgage, etc), I was very lucky to scrap in about 10 hours of training.  It is something that I do struggle with family, training and work. It really helps that since my training load has recently increased, my wife has been very understanding and supportive. She is really keeping things together nicely around the house and I often forget to thank her for all her hard work (I generally go around telling smartarse jokes instead)

Training Week

Swim: 2 sessions (I know, poor)

Bike: 2 sessions (yup again, poor)

Run: 3 sessions (slow build up)

Gym: 2 strength sessions (Spot on)

Yoga: didn't have time (Shockly poor)

My Wife Renee is just the way I like her.

Just after I turned around due to ice on the road. There was snow from about the 5km mark up. looked awesome.