Olympics withdrawal

Olympic withdrawal is really kicking in now. Tuesday was a rest from training today. After racing Sunday and then going to TPT run and swim sessions on Monday it wasn't worth skipping the rest even though I was ridiculously bored. 

Today, I went out to Knockburn for a jog and a swim. On one hand it was good that I managed to 'run' properly on my own, on the other hand it was slightly frustrating in that I managed to comfortably jog round a slightly longer and much hillier course than Saturday in exactly the same time for much less effort.

Then I did a 3 lap swim. I think it is the first time I have done 3 laps, certainly the first time this year. Again frustrating to go faster pace than Sunday's race, but at least there are a bunch of sensible reasons to explain swimming slightly faster. Despite being over twice the distance there is no stopping for turns but no benefit of kicking off turns. The much bigger factor though is that the wetsuit makes a huge difference that more than cancels out being in a race, and the additional distance doesn't really matter, for some reason cranking up swimming distance doesn't seem to have any major effect on my pace. My swim speed is still more limited by technique than by strength or fitness.

End of the Olympics

It has been 6 weeks since I have been on here. The first of those were just cos I had nothing to say that week, and a couple were because it was a year since I started here, and the way I was feeling it seemed better not to go over things again and then the Olympics has come along and distracted me for the last few.

So I didn't do a race report about Inverurie triathlon. Which I probably should have as it was a half decent race.

And I am not going to do much of a race report about today's Westhill triathlon either. It was generally a bit crap. Didn't swim well, had problems with my chip that meant I had to stop and take it off, and even without that interruption I was on a slow swim time anyway. Then I faffed about for a while in T1 putting my chip back on. Then my helmet didnt fit (Cheers Emma) biked ok for the first half with the bike running silently since I serviced it and relubed the chain (Thanks again Colin) and then just seemed to switch off and struggled from there. T2 was a disaster, after 5 attempts to put my shoes on I eventually had to sit on the ground to get them on. The run was at least as dire. 20:48 for a 4.2km course. Even with how little running I have done in the last year I should still be running nearly 5 minutes under that.

In between races I have been training almost a sensible amount. Still not running properly, or enough, but at least managing to run a bit. Road biking plenty and longer, swimming plenty and faster whenever it isnt a race. Not had the mountain bike out at all, which I should probably change while it is weather I don't hate.

Tomorrow I have to figure out what to do with all the extra time that I have been using to watch the Olympics. I guess the other 80 TV channels will probably come back into use. Started early with that as the Closing ceremony started badly and I turned over for a bit of Top Gun instead.