It took me longer to recover from my heat exhaustion that I first anticipated, I did a few sessions early on in the week on Monday and Tuesday but they just made me sick so I took a few days off, did a really long and painful ride on friday but then felt sick again so I started a fresh on Monday.
Swimming club is on holiday for 2 weeks so I haven’t been swimming, but on a positive it has given me more time to focus on bike/run.
Monday I got up early and did a 60min treadmill session, I put the incline on 1.5 for the first 30mins and then put it up to 2 for the second half. I feel that running at around a 2.0 incline is most like running outdoors. I started on a steady speed but increased it every 10mins until the last set was pretty much max effort.
Later that afternoon I did 3 x 15km loop on my bike as 1 x Mod, 1 x Hard, 1 x Mod, there were strong winds over the second half of the loop and I really had to put my head down and power through, I felt good though so after my 3rd loop I did a quick transition and ran for 20mins off the bike. The 1st 10mins as max sustainable pace and the 2nd half as easy home. I felt really smooth and light which was reassuring after how I felt racing last weekend. Then I iced which felt soooo good!

Tuesday I had a brick race in Belchford, I decided to ride there and back which was just less than 20km each way and it poured down with rain the whole time! The race was 19km bike with a few big hills thrown in followed by a 4km run up a very steep hill and back down. My legs were slightly sore from yesterday but generally I felt good, coming off the bike I felt really light and smooth again, I actually ran pretty fast for me! I won the race, even beat all the guys! and I took away the female record. Riding home sucked because it was 9pm, dark and raining, but it did my legs good to spin them out after the race.

Yesterday I had massive withdrawal symptoms from not swimming so I went down to the pool in a public session, bad decision, it was full of children and babies and I couldn’t get much swimming in. I managed to swim a broken up 3km of various things before I gave up and headed home for lunch.
That afternoon I went to the gym and did another 60min treadmill session, I did the same session as Monday, just increasing the tempo, focusing on leg speed. At one point I went to fast for the machine and ran into the front of the treadmill, giving myself a dead leg! Just my luck that the gym was full of people.
Then I did some core work and weights, followed by 10mins on the bike to cool down.

Today I am heading out on a long ride with my riding partner…..

Michelob London Triathlon

I did my first drafting Olympic distance race on Sunday, it was such a fantastic experience to race in a senior elite field.
The swim was fast, very fast. There were 3 leaders that i managed to hang on to for about 700m then i got dropped, i was suffering so bad after that buti kept pushing as i knew i had a good minute lead over the next pack of swimmers. I had a clean transition becasue there was noone around and just as i was mounting my bike i heard the commentator shout "here comes Dillon, Whitcombe and Cave" I couldn't beieve i had beaten them out the water by so far!!
I decided that it wasn't worth me chasing down the 2 girls thats were leading as they were to far away so i sat up and waited for the chase pack to come through.
It was awesome to be in a bike pack with athletes who i admire, who i used to watch on TV several years ago and wish i could one day be like them.
As soon as i got on the run i knew there was something wrong.... i had nothing... i didn't know if it was the heat or nutrition so i tried to drink as much as i could and took a gel. It didn't help, i trotted along at an agonsing pace, 4mins off my usual pace. I kept pushing as i knew i was in 7th place.
I don't remeber much after i crossed the line, i collapsed and was taken to the hospital tent on a stretcher. When i came round i was coverd in ice, had an IV and oxygen. My temp was 41.8!!!
After a few hours and a few bags of fluid i was good enough to leave and my temp was back down.
Im ok today, took a day off to get over the heat exhaustion. I went for a 60min run yesterday, nice and easy.