So another week down and 34 to go. My body is feeling better than I thought that it might. What I have found is that using a roller and stretching is important. I have fixed many pains that way. I have never been one to stretch much especially before sports so I find it hard to remember to do it.
Swimming has been good generally. Probably still the hardest to look forward to doing now that the cold has settled in. Its not great fun generally but putting on jumpers etc to go to a pool to swim is kind of wrong. Swim technique is not a bad session. I can leave that feeling relaxed but the race prep session is hard and is only getting harder. Lots of solid paced laps with timings to be within. I find I go out a little fast and have not found my happy pace yet. One day I am sure I will get it.
I got to have my first brick session of on the weekend. I had a 2hr zone 2 ride with a 15min zone 2 run. The ride was the fastest zone 2 ride I have ever done. I averaged 32.5km/h for the two hours. I even got back so early that I had to go around the block to make up the extra time I needed. Getting off the bike and running still gets me. The body likes to tell you that your done and you should sit down for a while. Then you realise that you are going to fast. Slowing to a normal pace feels like your almost walking but eventually everything gets back to normal. Something that did give me a chuckle at the end of the run was the icecream truck following me up and around a couple of streets. I must have looked like I was hungry. Well then again I probably always look like I am hungry and yes I can always eat if there is food around. This weekend I have a 2.5hr ride which has to include some hills so that will make it more interesting. Its not like my current path is flat but I guess it is not hilly enough.
The running is probably taking the biggest toll on the body. I sure do feel it after 1.5hrs on the go. I don't feel like I can't keep going its more when you stop the legs just kind of say "here feel this ya bugger and don't think about starting that again any time soon" as my legs feel heavy and done. :) Adam came up for the run this weekend. Its kind of nice to have someone to chat to while you run. I will enjoy it while I can as I know most of my training will be alone. He did comment that we had just completed the city2surf distance as a training run. That kind of got me thinking about when we did train for the first city2surf we did a few years back. We would do 5km runs as training and slowly build up to 10kms. If you did make it that far on a training run everyone would think your crazy. Ok back then most training was done in the pub so getting out for any training was a big deal.
So with five weeks completed of my actual ironman plan I have done the following.
Swim: 23.5km
Bike: 450.51km
Run: 151.78km
I think I need a sleep. :)
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