Promise you no sandbagging or mind games intended , I have just had a solid 8 week training block which seems to be working out ok & this morning felt really good. Love training in the heat too . Just hope it lasts another 2 weeks
If any interest, on the bike this morning took 2l of water, 1.5l of high5, 2 bananas and half a Jamaica ginger cake. Havenāt worked out the carb there yet but probably 150gish. Then a wee in transition as suggested by @Doonhamer . Nothing in or out on the run.
Went more by feel on the bike in the end, rpe around 7 . Bizarrely Garmin pedals almost agreed with the Saris today. Pedals said 247 and Saris said 245. No idea why they didnāt last time
Then on the run just at a pace that felt hard but sustainable, rpe 7 rising to 8 in the last 2 km. Thatās 3 hard sessions in the last 5 days though, so Iām going to back off a bit now.
Hope everyone else doing Cots is looking forward to it as much, good luck with last 2 weeks of prep and no mishaps between now and then
PS alcohol seems to make a huge difference here -
in a bad way- something I have only just learned after walking this earth for the best part of 49 years
Lunch swim and new training PB for 750 by 1 s. Pleased with that. 5k race tonight - hoping I can under my existing PB as well
Swim warmup I did 100m 2 arms, then 100m 1 arm at similar effort. 2 arms was 1:25, 1 arm 1:58. 2 lengths with other arm out front, 2 by my side. I find 1 arm fly easier/quicker than 1 arm crawl. I wouldnāt want to do that for more than an hour.
Got out for a lovely 16.5km at 4:37. Felt very easy and comfortable, much more than I was expecting. Put an easy ish hill effort in, unexpected KOM Either I was just have a particularly good day or Iām starting to hit some fitness again, just need to find an event to do something with it! Having horrible thoughts of ruining my summer for mara trainingā¦
Bike ride in the sun with no view of speed or power or anything, started the garmin and put it in my back pocket, very pleasant trip, turns out it was just shy of 90km.
50m Lido swim at lunch. Beautiful pool and eye candy too. Sadly I was pissed off with work and about to get stroppy with other swimmers so didnāt enjoy it.
First time I think using a TRIQ swim workout in my Garmin Watch. ā¦fuck know whether you are supposed to let it autodetect or hit lap:
. Just hope it lasts another 2 weeks
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under my existing PB as well 
Either I was just have a particularly good day or Iām starting to hit some fitness again, just need to find an event to do something with it! Having horrible thoughts of ruining my summer for mara trainingā¦
and some splashing about on my back like an otter
