This week has been the easy week in my block with just 15 hours of training to push out. Although the sessions have been at an easier intensity and shorter in length there is a strange phenomenon associated with an easy week - sometimes it feels incerdibly hard! Perhaps it's the extra couple of hours sleep per night or the luxury of being able to be more selective about what days to put each session on but it can become a bit of a mental battle to get through the shortest and simplest of sessions!
I have got myself to the gym three times this week and focused my efforts on lower body weights and core strength - a good week to do this as the running volume has been low. I have been pushed a little more on the swim front this week with Tony moving me up 2 swim lanes on Saturday to swim with the faster fishes! I quickly realised that the swim session was going to be a lesson about pure survival - hanging on to the back of the lane to achieve faster send off times per set with shorter rest periods - pushing myself in this way should make me stronger from an endurance point of view for the swim at Kona.
I'm now gearing myself up for what will be the key big solid weeks of my build up. I learnt on Saturday that there will be no more easy weeks like this one between now and Kona - the easy week per block will be replaced with a steady week instead!
Next week is solid hard week with an Auckland based training camp at the weekend which features a long swim, bike, run session on Saturday and then two races on Sunday - the Auckland City Tri Club standard distance Duathlon (10km run, 40km cycle, 5km run) followed by a 2 hour cycle time trial on a V8 super car race track (hopefully without a V8 super car in sight!!).
Just about to set the alarm clock for 0340 Monday morning - bring on the hard weeks and farewell to the last of the easy weeks!
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