Rest Week

Time for a rest week again. It's been a good three weeks of tough training, and my endurance is definitely where it needs to be, though I could use a little top end speed on all three disciplines. That should come over the course of March / beginning of April as I tune up for race season.

Good few sessions at the weekend. I did a 2 hour bike ride from York, heading towards Helmsley, including one leg sapping climb for about 5km up to the village of Brandsby. Felt fine other than the usual numb backside that afflicts anyone stupid enough to hop on a road bike for over fifteen minutes. 1800m swim on Saturday afternoon went well too, a decent 5:33 for a 400m (obviously not flat out), which followed some 800m of technique work. An 80 minute run on Sunday morning rounded the weekend out training wise, and this felt good too (a multi terrain flattish x country route), though of course it should have done since the pace was laid back (7:15/mile).

Spent the rest of the weekend watching the Winter Olympics with Sarah. Which idiot/brave soul looked at a giant cliff and thought it would be a good idea to jump off it with a pair of skis (thus inventing ski jump). Similar questions could be asked in relation to skeleton, bobsleigh, luge, curling...in fact, most of the sports there.

16/02/2010