So this week has turned into a little bit of a gong show, partially because of what happened last friday and the weekend, and possibly what is happening this weekend. But where there's bad new from me, there's GREAT news from the other half of this blog.
Jess
So if you've been following this blog, you'll know that Jess's run into the Calgary marathon had to take quite the detour because of injury and subsequent setbacks turned it from Calgary still being perfectly possible, to being less and less likely, all the way to the point where it was a remote possibility and a few weeks back we made the decision that it's not possible at all. But after some forced rest, which seems to always be the key, and proper recovery, you will always come back out on top, it's only even a matter of time. So I'm really glad to say that we're almost at the end of a week of full training, and no pain. (knock on wood) This bodes well for us because that means it looks like the injury is behind us and we're going to take it slow from here on it. I think the plan for building up to Edmonton starts sometime next week. I shall keep you posted but it sounds like exciting times.
Kel
So last week ended on a thursday, didn't run because I had a huge weekend ahead of me in terms of cycling, so I thought probably best to give my legs a rest.
Friday: So out I went on friday, easy spin lets get used to riding on the bike again for a substantial period of time. It was all going well, about to go through an intersection when a car thats in it, thought it would be a good idea to stop, so I stopped. When i started going again it was a little bit of an uphill, so I was cranking out some major torque and then I dropped my chain, and then promptly dropped myself, and had my first encounter with the pavement. After this, a brief period of profanity ensued, and I'm sorry for the people in that school soon who had to hear me yell at the top of my lungs. This cut the unfortunate ride short, and I headed home to mend myself up, maybe I'll post some pics sometime.
Saturday: Even though I had had an unfortunate encounter with the pavement the day before I wasn't going to let it ruin what should and would be a perfectly awesome ride. Headed out with my brother, Julie, Brian, Simon, Kyle, Kevin, and one other guy whose name I can't remember right now. I was probably one of the weaker riders in this group, but we said it was going to be an easy ride and we were just out there riding for fun, so we piled on the mileage to the tune of 95k. I was actually doing well till I somehow managed to let julie talk me into doing a SUPER long boy which basically just effed me, but hey now I know how far I can go. As I was heading up home road, managed to drop my chain....... AGAIN. OH and I snapped it too, so ya day full of mechanicals and once again multiple encounters with the blacktop again.
Sunday: This was a training ride with the team that we went out to scour the course that we were going to go race on. It was meant to be a no drop ride, but inevitably like all group rides they're always going to turn into the inevitable hammerfast. This ride was no different. Jeff and I ended up being tailmarkers on the lead group with me being spit out the back, fighting to get back on and then getting spit out again at some other point. But hey it was a good weekend to build up fitness in a major hurry. The best part was that I didn't crash this day
Monday - Today: After the weekend of heavy racing, my legs didn't really feel up to anything for the first two days, that and the major road rash going down my right side of the leg did not help this fact. I've been stretching a bit, but I think I might be doing a little of spin work indoors, because once again calgary has been blessed by about 10cm of snow.... BALLS.
~Cheers
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