tigerchik wrote:
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Light week.
Saturday: 1k warm up
6x50 descending from 45-42
200 w/down
Sunday:
Warm up & Race. Geelong long course 2/80/20
Solid swim - not a great start, but for the first time in a while I felt strong to the end.
Nice. How was the rest of the race? Lets hear some splits. Do you really wanna know ?!
OK - it was originally a goal race for me, but after IM Melbourne was announced, it turned into a training day. Lucky, too because with my achilles problems, my longest run since October is 14kms. As a result, my physio & I decided I should run for about 40 minutes.
I swam just over 32. Pretty sure the swim was long - going by the pro times. At least I hope it was..! I felt like I was going faster than 32 mins, that's for sure.
I wasn't sure what to do for the ride - have a real crack, or just ride about 10W above what I want to average for IM Melb. I decided on the latter & the plan was to hold 190W & see what that got me - the result was 33.0kph (20.5mph).
Part of me is regretting not tapering for this, as even though I hit the target wattage perfectly, I flet clogged (in the legs) the whole way.
The run was not bad - I ended up doing 8k (5 miles) in 41 minutes & then pulled out. I actually felt comfortable on the run, but have pulled up a bit sore... Just about everyone was passing me, too..! I wanted to go faster than my causual jog, because the achilles felt good. I am VERY pleased I didn't though.
All in all, I was pleased with some parts of the race, but disappointed with others.
The swim was encouraging (100's with short rest is definitely helping), the ride... hmm it felt a bit hard, and the run was not too bad.
I am pretty sore today. I don't race enough!