Last week of prep

I’m now into my last week of prep before I start upping the volume and doing proper (or what I view as proper) distances again. Huw, my training partner / rival, is currently gearing up for Ironman Lanzarote in spring 2010, so probably finds my “proper” distances very small. Well, if you will enter the toughest Ironman on the planet, you will get that.

I had a pretty poor swim on Tuesday morning. In all honesty, I was probably still a bit tired from the weekend, which can’t have helped my performance. The main set was a mere 4 x 200m off 3:30, but whilst I didn’t feel exhausted, I couldn’t get any speed up and floated around the 2:54 mark – some nine seconds off where I’d like to be. That said, I felt great once I got on the turbo on Tuesday evening, so it was probably just a blip.

I had a fairly special moment on Wednesday morning when I ran straight into a roadwork’s barrier on my hilly 5k. It stung like hell and left a mark on my thigh which suggested I’d been headbutted by a dwarf with serial anger issues. More irritatingly, my final time was 18:15, only two seconds off a personal. Had I managed to avoid the large, obvious and brightly coloured barrier, I would probably have smashed it, as the impact left me limping for a while.

Looking forward to tonight’s swim with the club – always nice to grind yourself into the ground over 3000m. Hopefully I’ll be a little speedier than I was on Tuesday. I’m looking forward to the weekend even more – a cute girl (Sarah), good food (Sarah’s food) and a warm bed (Sarah’s bed). Who says being an athlete is tough?

Davidovski out