Well the first 'official' training week is done and dusted for me. Although I am still in the middle of my Out Season program, so nothing has really changed yet - except jotting down a few points for our Blog. It was a hard week - very busy at work (end of year), late nights watching the TdF and some intense training sessions too! Managed about 33k of running and 126k of riding.
It has been pretty cold and dry this week, so I have had to rug up for cycling. Better than getting soaked I guess, although we do need the rain here in Perth. The toughest sessions were the Mount Street hill repeats at the SRG Boot Camp and Saturdays cycle. My legs are cactus!
Boot Camp is a bit of fun with the guys/gals from work, but I really put in some big efforts and did 8 repeats up Mount St with a time range of 1:34 to 1:40 per effort. When I got up on Sat to go riding my legs were sore and tired still. I knew it was going to be a tough ride before I turned a peddle! Rat rocked up at my house (early) and then later Andre joined us for his 1st ever RW ride. We did some hill work around Reabold Hill/Bold Pk etc and then some 2.5' VO2 max type efforts around Victoria Ave/Waratah. The RW crew bitched and moaned about the new route and gave me stick at every opportunity! But I think most enjoyed a bit of a different route and a hard hit out. During the z5 efforts, I pushed as hard as I could, but felt like someone was holding the back of seat! The legs felt so weak. In looking at my HR data later, I was averaging 88-90% of max HR for most of time. So that is Ok, as that was the goal.
One of the non-tri highlights of the week was the mighty West Coast Eagles big 8 point win over the top of the table Cats! Awesome result. Was really stoked to be there to see it...
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