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This week has been a little odd, a lot of training, a bit of work; and not a lot of sleeping. Also we could say that I won my first race. It was some sort of aquathlon with plenty of time to transition. Also most of the week has been without much measuring. I had forgotten the watch at home and I decided to not wear the chest strap, also since I had lost my foot pod, I had fewer references than ever. I had to work on RPE.
The week as always started on Tuesday, but to understand the week I have to go back to Monday. On Monday I had a friend coming over from overseas. He flew in pretty late and we had dinner together, without realizing about it we went to sleep at 3.30am. At 6.30am I was up to run. I decided to change the order of the training because I was sleeping at home. It was only 1h and 15 minutes but I did not feel very well. I was very slow and heavy. I did some ramp ups to gain some speed and power, after the run I started to freak out a little bit, I had been feeling a little bit of pain for the last few days in my foot, where I had the injury. I did not want to get injured again; too much effort had been put into this season. Then I went to drop my friend off and I went to work. After work I went to the pool, then I took a nap and afterwards I did the bike training.
On Wednesday, I could barely move I did not have much sleep and I was already up to go to the swimming pool. I swam over 4km and I left to work. While in the swimming pool I used the edge of it to get some treatment for my foot. Then I went to work and after that I had nap, just before the long brick. It was crazy it was going to be the third night in a row that I would sleep around 4h. My foot started to feel a lot better. It looks like it was only a nerve that had moved and needed to be placed again. I haven’t had a problem since.
On Thursday, I went to the swimming pool in the morning and in the afternoon I had planned a two hours run. The first 50 minutes I did it with some friend, very slow at the beginning, pick some speed at the end. One of them threw an attack which it was easy to follow but this time it was not fun because there was no competition, the attack was just to screw with one guy not to beat him and me, so I did not enjoy it as much as the last attack I was involved in. Then I drop them and I started to run on my own, I decided to pick up some more speed and I nearly finished the last 5km at 4min/km, finally I was able to go to bed slightly earlier.
Friday was an odd day. The training is supposed to be easier to start getting ready for Saturday, specially this one where I was racing. The only problem was that I needed some sleep and the city gets busy at night so I had to do it with sunlight. Anyway I went to the pool in the morning and then I took a nap. Then I went for a run and finally I worked on the trainer. I finished very late too.
On Saturday I woke up early to go to my town. There was supposed to be an aquathlon sort of race. Not many people did sign up but there was a good one, he is a mate of mine and I sometimes go bike riding with him. We decided to go for it. So we run the nearly 4km at 3.mins 30sec/km. To me this was quite fast, especially on a week like this one where the volume was very high. Then I had some time to rest and we got ready for the water. Unfortunately, because of a misunderstanding I was not able to swim with him, but I put a very good split I averaged 82,5seconds/100m which talking to him he rarely goes under 90seconds, that is why I can say that I won, not for fact though. Then I met many people and it started to get late for the real thing. I had 5h and a half of bike ahead of me. I decided to do the old route since I was starting from home but while I was going up I started to get cold and decided to go back home again and do a hill next to home. My split was awful, I am not happy at all. After the bike ride I went for my 15minutes run and actually was a pretty good run, also a very short transition, less than 100 seconds. After this I could’ve gone to the town’s fair but I decided to go back to the beach to get some rest, which I did not have that much because I went to say hi to some friends.
On Sunday I started the day very early as well. It was hard to get up before 7, but once I got up then it became fairly easy to move. I went to Sant Feliu for my open water swim. We were about to swim 5350m. We hopped on the bus towards Rosa Mar to start swimming at 10.15am. We swam against the current, I am fairly happy because I predicted 1h and 45 minutes and it took me only 90 seconds more than expected. My average speed was 3km/h which is around 1min 57seconds/100m. My pool average for 100m in a 300m time trial was 92 seconds so I was 25 seconds behind that time. The length of the swim, the current (we swam against it all the time), the extra miles that I usually do due to orientation, the wind, … Everything influenced on it. The good part is that it is one of my fastest swims in open water, but I had always better conditions than yesterday. After the swim I went for a run, the legs were tired but slowly at a time I started to feel a little better and I think I finished pretty well, even though I wouldn’t have gone much further.
This week has been tough, very tough. My mind was focused but I don’t know how long I would have been able to keep it like that. Now the week is over, time to adapt to the volume and start thinking in the future.
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