Well - what a week! Cadel Evans is poised to be officially crowned the winner of the TdF tonight! Amazing. Unreal. Incredible. Fantastic. Words fail me! It has been a long 3 weeks of sleep deprivation and it is all worth it. I have been hoping and believing this could happen since 2007. I have never stopped believing that Cadel could one day do it. Admittedly, my faith was shaken a bit in 2009, briefly. Then he won the Worlds and signed up for a new team. 2010 was tough as he broke his elbow and this year it has all gone (nearly) exactly to plan! I am so stoked!
My training has suffered a bit due to late nights and wet, cold and dark mornings...but no more excuses! It's time to put a little more focus on training. Work has just started to ease off in the last few days also. So I am going to start again.
This week had 2 x non exercise days.
Run : 31km
Ride : 113km
Total Time : 6:26hrs
The highlight was certainly the 85k ride I did with Paul this morning. He rode down to Scarborough and then we rode down to Swanny and then back up to his place in Mindarie and then I raced home from there. It was great to have some company, even though I didn't feel very strong on the bike and would have liked a bit more sleep! My running seems to be going well. I purchased a new pair of Kayano 17s from Phab on Thursday and they feel so nice. My interval work is hopefully paying off. My goal is to run a sub 20' 5k TT next month.
My weekend would be perfect if the Eagles can manage a win today against the Dockers! Lisa and I have had the house to ourselves all weekend and it has been great! Peaceful, quiet and tidy. We had dinner out on Friday, take away curry last night and have generally just behaved like 20-somethings who don't have kids! A nice change. Plus of course, watching the Tour each night. Lisa even got interested when Schleck went on the attack with 60km to go before the ascent of the Galibier! So I had some company for my late night vigils!
What a week, what a July. Cadel - what a champion!
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