Week 7/42 to go.... where has the time gone, I can't believe today is the beginning of week 7 with Coach Zippy.
Time Flies..... maybe a bit to fast.... I decided to start counting the weeks to Ironman 2014 & have inserted them into my training plan each Monday... and the weeks are flying - Week 7 already! Eventually the scale will tip and it will be Week 42/7 to go - now that is a scarey thought at the mo.
The big question - How am I going and feeling?
Some weeks are hard, and I'm tired - I look at whats coming and cringe, wishing I could wrap myself up and ignore everything - but training goes on, and at the end of the week it hasn't been as hard as I first thought.
I had a tapering week 2 weeks ago in preparation for the NZSS (New Zealand Single Speeds) Haha Coach Zippy may have been racing it - I was there for the dress up and beer shortcuts, so tapering wasn't really necessary, but I took it anyway. For those of you who don't know about the NZSS, it is a race on a Mountain bike with one gear, 3 laps (35km), beer shortcut each lap, dress up, and winner gets a tattoo and the rest of us come 2nd=, and a run start to find your bike - yes everyones bike had been moved from where we left them so first we had to find them.
Photos - Left Coach Zippy & Me, and Right Penny, Lee-Anne & Mandy
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Once the NZSS were over I was back into Ironman training and with the week planned I wanted to crawl under a rock. It included 3 swims, 3 bikes & 3 runs - sounds Ok but the bike included a solo 60k TT - 60ks with no one to talk to! and a TURBO bike session - 1 min fast/1 min easy/2 min fast/2 min easy/3 min fast/3 min easy all the way to 7 mins fast but the easy never got longer than 3 mins. From feedback I found it was best to do on a wind trainer. But wait there was more - 3 runs, 45 min & the 1 hour 15 mins I could cope with (I have not found the love of running yet), but then there was the 4x5min fast with 3 min recovery in between, and that was hard. Looking back over last week, it wasn't as bad as I had first thought, BUT I see that the 4x5min run is included again this week - and that was the thorn of last week - guess I will have to suck it up and get on with it. On the positive it is a group ride in the weekend so I may just may be able to talk a bit:)
In the words of Dory... 'Just keep swimming, just keep swimming' - this can be replaced with 'just keep training, just keep training'. As you said, training's not as bad as what it first seems on that first glance of it. I have learnt a trick to only look at the day ahead of me, not the whole week or it seems daunting! Keep up the hard work, it will pay off in the end..
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