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The week started promising but it has slipped from my hands. It was an adaptation week and even though it was hard to follow.
This week actually started on Monday. A friend of mine just gave me great news. And they were not as great as the fact that he decided to tell me. Since then I have not been able to reply much back. I want to. It is something I have always wanted to. But I just don’t have the time to do that. But the question is, if I don’t find the time did I really want this as much as I thought or it is not as important anymore?
On Tuesday, I started with a longer swim that I had expected and then, after work, I had a short bike ride and a short run. The bike ride on the trainer was fairly good but the run was too fast. I know it is short and I might feel fresh after a day off but I will need to take a closer look to those runs. Even though the time lapse between the ride and the run is not very big it is not considered a transition.
On Wednesday I went to the pool in the morning and then afterwards I went to work. In the afternoon I had a brick session of 45 minutes bike ride and then 15 minutes running. The run was awesome. I was feeling fresh and extremely fast and indeed I was going fast.
On Thursday I had my group run. I did not realize the run was supposed to be a 75minutes run and I only did 60. Part of the problem was that I left late from work and then I stopped to talk to someone. During the run we were going very slow but at the end someone decided to start an attack and I followed along. I hadn’t been running that fast for that long in quite a few time, I took the lead very early and I pretty much controlled the attack. I kept increasing the speed a little bit at a time and I was almost caught until the final sprint. I was worried because I mostly train endurance and training speed is not what I usually do. Although I did not want to lose I knew I was going to win it, but this sprint does not show what would’ve happened in a race where I don’t think they could handle my pace for 9 and a half kilometers to start the sprint.
On Friday I resumed my swim in the morning and I did a late evening bike ride. It was too late of a bike ride because I had to go get my new wheel which is going to help me to mount and dismount from the trainer.
On Saturday I started work early so I could go for my 3h bike ride and 15minutes run. I started at 6 so I could be out of there by 15h. For the first time I put my bike in my new car and we went to work. While riding I was feeling fairly fast but the figures show that I was not as fast as I thought I was going. That was a little disappointing. Then I went to watch Barça beat ManU in the final of the Champions League with some friends and by midnight I went to sleep.
On Sunday I was tired but I had planned a swim test and I was asked to go to work, so I started work at 4 am so I could go to the pool to do the test. Amazing speed in the test, I dropped 5 seconds from my previous T-pace. I was super excited about that. It means that I am improving my swim. Then I went for a 30 minutes run, fairly easy this time. In the afternoon I went back to work for a little bit.
What is bothering me lately is my bike leg. My swim is improving very fast. My run has always been fairly good. But my bike ride is giving me headaches. Even though at this point I probably have more strength on the bike than running, because of the very long rides; I would trust better myself achieving my goals in the marathon than in the bike. I hope I will see more improvement in the near future.
Also work has been taking me a lot of time, this week I probably worked more than 70 hours. Is it worth it? I hope so, but you can never be sure. So far I am playing the give a lot and wait for the return. It is better to wait for it than willing to have it right away. I hope the reward will come.
Also I am very happy because I am a big Barça fan. I am not very superstitious but I like to keep my routines and for this final I broke one. Nevertheless, it does not matter who you watch the games with. The game is played far away and they don’t care, don’t know your routines. What it was surprising me though is that I had worked all morning, I trained in the afternoon and I did not think much about it. I was not very nervous, was it because I knew we had a good team and I knew they would give their best?
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