T'was the night before the Alpine..

Bernie, I have some good articles on the use of vibration training if you are interested.

Mon: no run this morning due to other plans. But I made it to swim squad for the first time in about a month and, much to my surprise, it didn't hurt quite as much as I had anticipated given my lack of swimming training. 2.75k plus some underwater training which put us all into a hypoxic state, making it far too hard to do & count laps at the same time

Tue: another 20mins walk/shuffle which proved that last Saturday's run wasn't a fluke. Still hard, hard work - HR is still too far high - but showing signs of progress.

Wed: first pilates session of the year with the new pilates/physio ("Geoff") who has replaced Carly. A tough session despite the work I have done over the Xmas / New Years period.

After work I headed up the mountains to watch one of the Dirty Tri races being held at Lawson. M & S have done a great job; it is a relaxed fun setting & a well organised event. I am hoping to 'borrow' R's mountain bike one day & get up there to do the race for myself.

Thu: back to my happy place - the gym - for an easy strength session as I didn't want to trash myself ahead of this weekend. I've said it before, I will say it again; I lurve training in the gym. Might have to do a bit more than 1 session a week over the coming months...

Fri: headed out just after 7am for another (good) 25mins walk/shuffle. I've had a couple of great, albeit short, runs this week. However I am noticing that some of the biomechanical 'issues' I have previously experienced still exist unfortunately. I am stronger in many ways but still have some issues to resolve.

By 9am, the car was packed & it was off on the 8 hour road trip to beautiful Bright, Victoria with R. Such a beautiful part of the world. Our lovely hotel is right on the river which is basically the local swimming pool. A weir has been built so it has created, in effect a (partial) dam which is patrolled in summer by lifeguards. Throw in a couple of water slides & it is a very popular place in summer - not to mention only about 3mins walk from the front door of our apartment! We also need to walk past it to get from the finish line of the ride on Sunday back to our apartment so I suspect a full clothed 'dunking' may be in order... ;-)

Sat: I headed out for an easy 30mins bike ride (including 3 x 30sec efforts to test out the legs) out & back from Bright to roll the legs over as I hadn't been on the bike since last Sunday. Bright is beginning to feel like home after spending some time in the area a few weeks ago. 12.09km

The rest of the day was rather lazy. After morning tea at one of the (great) local cafes, we headed over to race HQ to register & check out the expo. It was far too hot to spend very long outside so we quickly headed for the car & went on a road trip to Mt Hotham to show R the 'hill' I climbed on the bike at tri club a few weeks ago. It was nice to have a chance to enjoy the view from the comfort of the passenger seat of the car. On the way back to town, we had lunch at another great cafe in beautiful Harriotville before heading back to Bright to hide from the heat in the comfort of our air-conditioned apartment for the rest of the afternoon before enjoying dinner at a picnic table overlooking the river.

Now I am finalising this post on Monday night - so the Alpine Classic was, of course, yesterday - but I think the Alpine Classic ride deserves its own complete post. So stay tuned!

MTD:
Swim: 4.25km
Bike: 235.18km