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This has been my first crash week ever. It has been a bicycle one. Few reasons to it. Biking is my weakness, biking has low impact, my shoulder was injured and I could not swim.
I actually started the week on Monday with a run. It was only a one hour run just to get the feeling of it since last Sunday I could not do it. Afterwards I was supposed to go to my physiotherapist but we had to cancel it.
On Tuesday I resumed my training plan. I biked in the morning. Then in the afternoon I decided to go for a bike run again but this time was outdoors. This time I did not feel very safe on the bike since I had the accident last Saturday and this was my first solo ride since then. It felt like the bike and I were not in sync. After the bike ride I went to the physiotherapist to get my treatment, he used some dry needling technique and then I left for a 1h run.
On Wednesday, I biked for 90 minutes in the morning. And then after work I did my transition. It was a pretty hard day and I had to take a nap before I could do the second session. I had not had much sleep lately and I needed some. It was one of my first nights running in my home town and I managed fairly well to do in only two non identical laps my 45mins run.
On Thursday morning I had my recovery ride. 40minutes of easy spinning. Just to get some air in my body. Then After work I ran with a coworker. It was his first day running with me and it might be his last one. He told me he would be fast enough but he was not used to the heat. I was running very easy for me but he was almost racing. We did 10km together, then I left them and I started my second hour of training at a much higher pace, the second pace was over 1minutes faster per km.
On Friday I did 4 sessions of training. The first one was a 90minutes bike ride. The second one was my first swim of the week. I did not know how my shoulder was going to react and it reacted quite well. I felt some discomfort but I am not sure whether it was my injury or my scratch from the accident. After that I went for a 30minutes run and once I was back home I did 1h on the trainer, just to get some force work done.
Saturday was one of the toughest days I had this season. It was very hot, I was all on my own and I had 5h of riding and 45minutes of running ahead of me. The bike was not very fast, maybe faster than I could first think but nothing close to what I want to call fast. At the end of the ride it was very windy that blew all my effort after the turn around point. Then I went for the run, I did over 10.5km, which is ¼ of the marathon in 45minutes. The pace was a little slower than I wanted. For the first 7minutes my legs were not running properly but then they loosen up and I started to run much better. It was very hot and I struggled to finish. At almost the end of the run I had to stop at the fountain and get some extra water to be thrown over my head to cool off. It left me very tired but after a 90minutes nap I was recovered to do normal life again.
Sunday was an awesome day, I did not feel as tired as I expected to. I put up a show for all the people at the beach at that time. It was hot but I needed to train my wetsuit. The session was to swim for 14 minutes then get out of the water run a bit and back to the water and I did that for one hour. The feeling from swimming to running and back to swimming is fun, but the best part is after the run when you can hardly breathe and jump into the water and the next 4 strokes are just to recover from the run and then you are ready to start swimming fast again. The shoulder did not bother me much. Then I went back home, took a nap and run for one hour in the sun. It was very hot but I managed it pretty well this time.
The closer I get to race day the more I respect it. Fear would not be the appropriate word and I like the respect one. I think my goals will be hard to meet but I will fight for them.
Right now the work is done and there is very little room to improve if there is any. I have trained hard and all the work is in my legs and arms. The question is whether I have trained well or not. Did I give everything when I had to do it and did I hold it when I had to? Did I do my hard days hard enough and my easy days easy enough?
This week I also had a very strange talk with a friend. I have not had many talks like this in my life, it was probably the first time. It is nice because we both opened up but the circumstances of both of us don’t leave much room for anything. It is weird how strong we can be and how vulnerable we can be in two different moments not very far apart.
I need to let the reason to take over my heart or I will have problems. I have put a lot of effort into it and it is not now time to blow it off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMgO4JyBp4
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