Just a few big weeks catching up with me, and of course life in general, hardly in the fast lane but…, although I do prioritise sleep, but sometimes training harder reduces the quality of sleep.
Oddly, I felt worse doing the 8k run this morning that the longer run this evening.
Nothing a few easy days won’t sort out, but with a 100M TT on Sunday it’s not just yet.
I suspect a 25-30 minute run gives a fairly significant advantage on the bike leg for last year, also some very big packs probably, unless they went off in groups?
I think you can also get gold AWA by just doing more races, as you say it’s just a frequent flyer thing and you get a keyring and sticker!
But I think there’s essentially no limit to the races you can do to get points so if I’d done another couple of their races I’d also get the chance to have a gold. Obviously the higher up in a race the more points you get and a full is worth up to 5000 I think, 70.3 is up to 3000.
I did a full and a half last year with a top 30 and top 15 I think.
Last, and only really long run done today, added up to about 32k over the moors, it was hard work on tired legs and although bone dry a lot of the track has gone very sandy and soft.
Also had a short swim in the river after which definitely helped ease the legs off a bit, and a massage tomorrow
algae readings still dropping. Although 3 weeks is still some time 
we’ll see.
