4/15

Mon: headed to the gym again at 5.30am for another run on the treadmill; this time 3 x 6mins w/90sec walk recovery in between. Amazing how difficult 7min/k pace can feel...

After work it was off to swim squad for 90mins of torture. Close to 3km I'd say; I have no idea. My head & thoughts were off in the mountains somewhere. Let's call it 2.9km for the sake of it

Tue: rest

Wed: rest. I was supposed to run & swim first thing in the morning. I got up when my alarm went off at 5.15am. Got changed. Boiled the jug, made a coffee and then sat on the couch & worked / studied instead. Blah.

Thu: dragged myself out of bed for 71min bike session on the trainer in the garage (incl 3 x 12min @ 65-75 cadence). 27.7k. Av. 24.3k/h

Fri: 45mins of butt & shoulder torturing pilates with Carly in the morning. And then headed to the gym after work for a run on the tready again, for 3 x 6mins this time only with 60sec recovery. This one felt not too bad much to my surprise; I was feeling really fatigued & flat beforehand.

Sat: went to bed on Friday night psyched to do my 4hr ride on Saturday morning. I normally prefer to do my shorter 'long' ride on Saturday to give myself a chance to catch up on some (much needed) sleep. But with Sunday's weather forecast looking horrid, I didn't have much choice. The forecast for Saturday was 'rain developing' which, I assumed, meant rain developing later in the day. Apparently not. I woke at 6.30am to the sound of rain. Grumble, grumble. I don't mind riding in summer rain, and yes of course, it could rain on race day. But it won't be (almost) winter rain on race day. So I headed to the garage for a 2 hour session on the trainer - my mind couldn't take much more than that - consisting of some standing stuff, fast cadence stuff & hill climbing simulation stuff. 48.2k Av. 24k/h. AvHR134

Sun: And finally the sun came out. Dragged myself out of bed for my long ride, admittedly thinking 'thank god only 12 more weeks of this'. It's not that I'm lacking mojo; I just feel like I'm dragging my feet a bit this week. Anyhoo, I'm glad I did. It turned out to be a tough, but good, ride. I headed out for a 4hr ride by myself (my first ride on my lonesome in a long time). I headed up Lapstone Hill to Blaxland (as tough as it was the first time I did it a couple of months ago), before heading up the M4 to the M7 bike path, then south along the bike path before turning around just after the hills at Elizabeth Drive. Finished up with 90.6kms - my first 90km ride!

I also managed to get a flat tyre only 25mins from home. My first flat in about 12 months & my first when I've been out by myself which (much to my surprise) I managed to change with a minimum of fuss or struggle. Yeah me! Av. 22.3k/h. AvHR 141

That brought May to an end -
Swim - 12.4km
Bike - 503.7km - my biggest month on the bike ever (by far!)