A Tough Week

I knew there would be weeks like this...............

The week after mad jacks was good, might have been walking like a catholic choirboy, but spot on average training volume of 12 hours, culminating in a 'bastard' watt test on the Friday night (there was a time I would have been partying on a Friday night) - So 209 watts on the turbo over 20 minutes is not huge but given i apparently only weigh as much as a gerbil it fairs well for power to weight ratio.  I should also be able to build this in the next 9 months in the saddle.

Travelling again and all the challenges that brings, starting out in Toronto and after 5 minutes running around the lake on the first morning i realised why I was getting strange looks in shorts and a hoody.  The windchill was -15........So how relieved was I the following day when I asked the hotel staff about a local gym and they unveiled a cupboard containing a treadmill, bike and a few free weights "Pig in S***"  Needless to say the rest of my training in Toronto was done in the cupboard, but it did the trick and a good couple of hours a day kept me going.

Next stage - Chicago and meeting with the rest of the team in a wonderful hotel, great pool and fantastic gym, so Friday was a morning run and then a 4.5K evening set in the pool - not fast at about 1:30mins, but important to just go over distance and felt good boosting confidence.  Saturday morning I then met a friend at work who is also a triathlete.  The two of us did just over 2 hours on some impressive gym bikes followed by an hours run on the shores of Lake Michigan.  Good session BUT i wasnt feeling great towards the end and realised why that afternoon as sickness set in.  I was only telling Paul and JP last week how happy I was to have gone the whole winter without even a sniffle!!!!!

I now havn't trained for the last 4 days, back in the UK and hoping to pick it back up soon..........