Training this week has been a bit hit and miss, I did a brick session on Friday in the Gym which was: 2x (30mins bike into a 20mins run) at a maximum sustainable pace.
Saturday I went on a 2 hour flat ride, without pushing myself too hard because I didn’t want to be sore for the race the next day.
Sunday morning I ran about 15mins to the County X-Country Championships held in Hubbard’s Hills. The course was a tough 2 loops of 3km on really hilly and uneven ground. I raced pretty well, in the first lap I felt great, but towards the end I really started to hurt… maybe I didn’t quite pace myself correctly. I lead the race from start to finish, got my 1st win of the season! Afterwards I ran back home for 15mins as a cool down.
Later that day I had a 5.5km swim session, we did lots of small sets of efforts and drills and also some fin work. I also did 1000m pull.
When I woke up on Monday I could barely move legs, I think racing in my spikes was a bit of a shock to the system. I decided to take it easy so i went out on a easy 30min run and later that day I also did a 30min spin on the turbo to try and ease out the legs.
I felt better on Tuesday, spent most of the day Christmas shopping, however I did manage to get in a 1:30 ride before it got dark. Now I am just about to head to the pool, it’s a 90min session so hopefully we will get around 5km in…