Training.

We have eased off the heavy training over the past week becasue we are racing this Sunday. It feels great to have a little more energy than usual.
On Monday we swam around 4km, the main set was 3x 15x50m fartlek work, we also encorporated some drafing into the final set. I felt good and worked pretty hard.
Then in the afternoon we had an hour gym session foloowed by a short run of 6km, the first 3km was easy pace keeping the group together and the second 3km was hard. I was tired but pushed hard as it was only 3km.
Tuesday morining i rode a 40km group ride, it was a really varied pace ride, some bits were really tough and other bits were comfortable. I flet sore on the hills.
Tuesday afternoon we have track, Tuesday is usually a solid workout but becasue of the race it was easier. We did a 5km warm up followed by 2x5x400m target pace below 1:20 for me and a 2km cool down.
Wednesday morning swim was a great session the main set was 6x250m pull 6x150m hard and 6x50m hard. Felt really smooth in the pull and fast in the 50's.
Wednesday afternoon we had another gym session, i only did arm and body weights as my legs were fatigued from track. Then we had 90mins of windtrainer, where we did mostly fast cadence work.
Thursday morining we had track, i was sore from windtrainer so i found it hard. We did 3km warm up followed by drills and 6x200m. Then the main set was 10 x 400m continus as 1 max 1 recovery followed by 10x100m max. Then we headed to the pool were we did a few km's of drills and tech work.
Thursday afternoon we did an easy 30km group ride down the freeway path, me and a few of the guys decided to push the last 3km as hard as we could so the whole ride wasn't as easy as our coach had planned. Plus we had a near pile up when a few riders decided to check themeselves out in the reflective glass of the brewery! haha.
The Plan from here is to swim on friday, ride to the race course on Saturday to check it out which will be about 40km with a short swim in the river to check out the temp beofre the race on sunday!

Pictures!

Post race stretching with Luana and Chris.

My attmept at a winners speech at the presentation.

Early morning race start.... getting ready to head down for my 1st Olympic distane race.

Setting up my bike in transition.

Australia!

Me and some other members of The University of Western Australia's Traithlon Club post race in Albany.

Sorry i haven't updated for a while but things have been really busy since i got back to Australia.
My training is going awesome at the moment and it seems all my hard work over the past few years has paid off.... I did my FIRST olympic distace race...... and i won!! It was the Albany Classic Triathlon in Perth Australia.

I shocked myself with how well i raced, specifically my run time of 38:49 which is a lot faster than i thought i would go on the back of a swim and run. My swim was also really strong, i was second out of the water, but only just beaten by one of the men.... and my ride was consistent on a really tough, hilly course.

The whole thing felt amazing, i feel so much more comfortable racing Olympic than sprint, all that worrying for nothing! I can't wait to do my next race and continue to progress over the coming season.

And to top off my day i was approached by Liz Blatchford's dad who said i was a super athlete for my age and that his daughter should watch her back in the future!! :O:O

My weekly training at the moment is based around this programme;

Monday: Swim (am) Gym and along run (pm)
Tuesday: Group Ride (am) Track session (pm)
Wednesday: Swim (am) Gym and Windtrainer (pm)
Thursday: Track and Swim (am) Group Ride (pm) Friday: Swim (am)
Saturday: Long ride
Sunday: Race/Rest