Less is More

 It's Friday today, and about 200m into my early 7 miler I had to stop.  It felt my heartrate had gone too high, and after about half a minute I felt Ok and carried on so I don't know what brought that on.  All I can think is that I was out and about quite soon after waking up and therefore hadn't acclimatised to being upright - if that's a 'thing'.  Anyway, finished my run OK and all is good.

I'm definitely feeling the affects of 29 weeks of training now - very tired and very hungry.  I'm always tempted by the sweet, unhealthy eating options which cannot be good, but still do it.  Up until now, I mentally offset that by knowing I'll be out running/cycling to compensate but now we're into the taper (2 weeks to go!) it's not so easy to talk myself into that.  This week's total is 2 and a half hrs down on last week, so a fairly easy 3and half hrs to do this weekend instead of the 5hrs +.

Something for the Weekend Sir?

 5hr bike, 3hr run. Simple eh?  I'll be doing more than that in 3 weeks time, but I'm looking forward to this weekend less than that one.  It's the last big week, and although next week is also quite big, it's not as bog as this one, so psychologically 'easy'.  What's not easy is putting the time in on consecutive days.  This weekend calls for a 5hr bike on Saturday, then a 3hr run on Sunday and the run will be by far the most difficult.  I haven't done anything like 3hrs since the York marathon last September so you can understand my trepidation, and yet, and yet.. I need to do it so come 3 weeks on Sunday I will feel like I've given it my best shot. Picking a course is a bit of a headache because I'd really like to do most of it off-road so as to pass the time faster than pavement pounding, so I need to get my thinking hat on.

Tomorrows 5hr bike may well be a bit less than that, I have a bit of time 'in the bank' so about 3 and half will do me, although I will probably do a bit more.  This will reduce the time required on the run, and although that's 'cheating', I can talk myself into thinking it's fine.  Besides, I don't want to stress my knee too much.  There, that's my excuses over with.