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The sessions get harder and longer. I have rejoined the Z4 splits in my sessions. It means I started the week with a run with sprints. My legs were sore from the week before when I started to train but after a little while I felt good again. And I started to feel better and better through the week. I am talking about feelings and not performance at this point. It’s getting important to me to feel good because the sessions start to be long.
The weather is getting colder and there is less sunlight every day. And I have also have to start paying more attention to it because for example it rained on Friday when I wanted to go for the run and when I went for it I got caught by the rain.
Once again I swam in 3 different pools, just like last week, and two different sizes. I hope from now on I’ll be swimming in only two different pools, one in Girona and one in Barcelona.
I have also swapped two swimming sessions because I thought I would go to the sea to do the long swim but I did not go, instead I went to Girona to swim. I am quite happy with the total time of the 3500m nonstop swim; it took me 1h6mins and 30seconds. I believe in a 50m pool I can drop 30seconds, and I believe I could just go harder but the distance is long enough. I have to mention that I had swum the day before doing it, so I could’ve gone slightly faster.
I was also denied a single gym entrance in Barcelona so I had to wait to get home to ride on the trainer because it was too late to leave the house. It was very humid and I got extremely wet. It took my shoes more than a day to dry, and believe me it is not nice to have wet shoes on a Saturday morning ride.
The long ride was fun; I went from my town to Santa Pau through Amer and back. I did about 20mins more than what I was supposed to do because I miss calculated the turnaround point. I took the wrong exit in Santa Coloma and then I had to go back, and that’s what happened. According to my watch the total ascent was 1600m a lot more than what I was used to and I have no idea because my speedometer is still in the shop. The cadence was quite good to an average of 83rpm. Then I went for the run which this time was longer and I ran for 13,6km in one hour. I felt tired and it was fairly hot. I used arm warmers for the ride and I left them at T2. The T2 was fairly fast according to all the things I had to do, eating; removing the arm warmers … I also had to take my shirt off because I was getting a rush under my arm. I will need to fix this because the solution is not IM approved. I took a gel every 40mins and it didn’t feel enough although it is ok when I train.
On Sunday I went for the long run, I was going about the same average as the day before although I went for a lot longer time. I am still looking ok on the run, the pavement was soft and it could’ve slowed me down a little bit, although my bpm were fairly low, I averaged 147 through the whole time, I don’t know if I should trust it very much because I see some inconsistencies at the very beginning of the chart. The worst part of the Sunday’s workout was the ride. I still had my ass sore and I had to ride to high rpms. Even though the average is not the targeted, I was not riding a flat course either.
At this point I am not sure if I’ll race, I would like to but I haven’t bought the ticket yet and I am getting a lot of pressure from you to not race, well my balance is very low right now and I have to think twice or three times before I spend a penny. It is hard to decide, I have put a lot of effort, hours and money to it and I don’t want all this to go away.
On the other hand I think I know my future a little better and it is probably far from here. I just have to stay 3more months but I hope I can leave again afterward and talking to you doesn’t help my hope. And I appreciate your words, it is nice to know I have good friends and it is nice to know they will try to do their best to support me. Others who claimed to be friends aren’t helping.
The lottery is going to start soon and I hope I have a winning ballot this time. I want to have it, I had a ballot last year but I wasn’t lucky enough. I would not believe how happy it would make me.
This week you have acted weird, you had said to me that you weren’t this kind of persons well it looks like you were wrong.
I don’t know you haven’t even answered me, well I guess this is what you want, although I am not sure if you are trying to contact me the same way I had tried before. It is your choice and if you want anything you just have to speak up.
Have I missed you? I have to say a little bit. Was it enough? I don’t know.
I also realize that the Iron journey is leaving me lonely. I am ok with it but it would be nice to be able to meet you and to have more free time to meet. But the reality is that you don’t even call me or you don’t even answer the phone. Well I guess it is what I deserve.
I have also decided this week after visiting a few places to live and balancing my options for the future that I’ll leave with you until further notice.
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