Injury had been ok so decided to do 101 mile sportive
Started near Burton and went up through peaks to just past Leek.
Very windy, almost unridable really.
Total climb = 1594 m (5229ft)
Had an absolute disaster,got two punctures in first 35 miles and had to wait for service motorbike. Then at around 80 miles i crashed, went past a farm access and wind took me, road rash all down right hand side and sore shoulder and hand. Managed to finish though in 7.30.24. Not to bad considering amount of incidents and also two food stops
Sunday 22 May 2011
Monday 16 May 2011
Injury
Have been injured since 4th May, it is the same knee injury as last time.
Have been doing knee strength exercises every day and been icing.
Went on a small 4 mile run yesterday and knee seems to be ok now. Will start easy training.
Starting to get a bit worried about half ironman on 5th June. hopefully should be ok. have done enough training and need to remember that i have the endurance as longest distances so far have been:
Swim - 5.4k
Bike - 106miles
Run - 20.5 miles
Need to ensure take it easy for next few weeks and rest if hurting.
Have been doing knee strength exercises every day and been icing.
Went on a small 4 mile run yesterday and knee seems to be ok now. Will start easy training.
Starting to get a bit worried about half ironman on 5th June. hopefully should be ok. have done enough training and need to remember that i have the endurance as longest distances so far have been:
Swim - 5.4k
Bike - 106miles
Run - 20.5 miles
Need to ensure take it easy for next few weeks and rest if hurting.
Sunday 1 May 2011
Southwell Sprint Triathlon - 1st May 2011
400m/17.6km/5km
Preparation
This was not the best as been of the rails in last two weeks although completed all sessions in recovery week although had big night out on Friday.
Breakfast
1 Bagel with peanut Butter
1 can of low fat rice pudding
Seemed to work pretty well although hard to tell as short race - will try this for Challenge Kraichgau
Course & Conditions
Had a few hills in isolated spots, 1st and last 3 miles on bike and 1st 400m of lap run was all uphill.
Very strong wind, race write up on website described it as gale, was quite demoralising on bike
Result
57:18 (37th out of 583, 6th in age group)
Swim - 6:47 (39th)
Struggled with fats pace as not been training for longer and slower - had to stop doing tumble turns half way through to get extra breath.
T1 - 1:08
Was OK although fell over as soon as i hit the grass from the mats which was pretty embarrassing
Bike - 30.33 (58th)
This was a big improvement, kept HR mostly in Z3 and Z4, average speed was 21.4 mph which i am happy with considering the wind on the way back, took over a few people and only got taken over once and he was in my wave and did not let him get away (Got him in 1st 200m of run)
T2 - 00:42
Was a good quick transition, left shoes in bike which was a lot quicker for dismounting
Run - 18:08 (47th)
A little bit disappointed with this as seemed to lose focus although as C priority race was probably for the best
Average pace = 6:27/miles
Felt like i had more to give at the end
Did not have any nutritional stuff, had 1 bottle of squash on bike
Positives
- Felt absolutely fine after, good indicator of a lot more to give
- Improvements in Biking
- Managed to leave bike shoes on bike for T2
Negatives
- Was only a short race so could not see if breakfast worked properly
- Still slow in T1
- Lost focus in run and therefore lost time
- Inner thigh was painful on bike
Preparation
This was not the best as been of the rails in last two weeks although completed all sessions in recovery week although had big night out on Friday.
Breakfast
1 Bagel with peanut Butter
1 can of low fat rice pudding
Seemed to work pretty well although hard to tell as short race - will try this for Challenge Kraichgau
Course & Conditions
Had a few hills in isolated spots, 1st and last 3 miles on bike and 1st 400m of lap run was all uphill.
Very strong wind, race write up on website described it as gale, was quite demoralising on bike
Result
57:18 (37th out of 583, 6th in age group)
Swim - 6:47 (39th)
Struggled with fats pace as not been training for longer and slower - had to stop doing tumble turns half way through to get extra breath.
T1 - 1:08
Was OK although fell over as soon as i hit the grass from the mats which was pretty embarrassing
Bike - 30.33 (58th)
This was a big improvement, kept HR mostly in Z3 and Z4, average speed was 21.4 mph which i am happy with considering the wind on the way back, took over a few people and only got taken over once and he was in my wave and did not let him get away (Got him in 1st 200m of run)
T2 - 00:42
Was a good quick transition, left shoes in bike which was a lot quicker for dismounting
Run - 18:08 (47th)
A little bit disappointed with this as seemed to lose focus although as C priority race was probably for the best
Average pace = 6:27/miles
Felt like i had more to give at the end
Did not have any nutritional stuff, had 1 bottle of squash on bike
Positives
- Felt absolutely fine after, good indicator of a lot more to give
- Improvements in Biking
- Managed to leave bike shoes on bike for T2
Negatives
- Was only a short race so could not see if breakfast worked properly
- Still slow in T1
- Lost focus in run and therefore lost time
- Inner thigh was painful on bike
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