La santa was fantastic, the childrens swimming came on leaps and bounds with some proper coaches. Harvey won the 400m at the childrens olympics and libby made friends with all the men in the green team, insisting on a cuddle from each of them at every event, dinner and breakfast, don't know where she gets that from, Emma??
Weather was great which allowed for some serious training volume, it was a luxury to get up most mornings and do an hours swim set in the sunshine (wish I remembered sun cream on the first day though), running is also coming back after the groin strain, a few longer sets on the treadmill in addition to a couple of short transition runs on the track have gone well. Will stick to the treadmill for the next week or two to help complete recovery and keep the impact low.
The sports massage and back contortion with a Danish therapist called Thomas seem to have also sorted out my acheing back on the bike. It now doesn't hurt until I have been riding for 5 to 6 hours, as opposed to the usual 2.5, hopefully on the big day I should be off the 180k bike and on the run by this time!!!!!
May be overly ambitious :-)
The real jewel in the crown though was the cycling, 500k racked up in 4 days riding. Helped by getting lost on the first day and doing 130k instead of the planned 110k, a group ride with 4 crazy scandinavians who insisted on 7000+ feet of climbing within a 152k ride (all good training but I was suffering at the time, especially when Morten went past me uphill going "look no hands")
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