So I have to say this is probably the first time in a very long time that I actually have some semblance of an idea of what Jess has done this week, and this week also kinda marked a return to somewhat normal training.
Jess
Jess is definitely doing a lot more running these days, but it usually ends up being running late at night due to work school etc. Her longest run this week was around an hour and 30 minutes (or so, correct me if I'm wrong jess). There's no pain, and the building is definitely there. She also put in a long day on the bike for cross training as well. I didn't get a chance to run with her this week, but I'm sure we'll have lots of times during the summer to run together
Kel
So Thursday nights for me have kinda turned into team training nights for cycling, and this week we attempted to work on a leadout train, it worked horribly to the point I would say that it didn't. We kinda worked in a paceline out there so it's nice to get used to riding in a group. These sessions are nice because they're a little bit slower and more focused on techniques. The weekend was filled with me being in a course.
Monday night was also another team training night, this was actually a hard training sess. We did a bunch of hill climbs up edworthy, I attacked on the first one and definitely put myself way too deep into the red for that one and had to recover for the next few, but hey that's a lesson one has to learn right? We took a little break to meet up with some other people that some of us knew and then it was back to business as usual. At this point Waleed and Brent started leading us up the hill and it was a cracking tempo, not gonna lie I was afraid I was going to get dropped. We were running a double pace line up and I was sitting 1 back with Rob, and I was worried but sticking with it. For those that are familiar with Edworthy hill, after the flat portion, there's a sorta kick up and then a final left hand bend the final stretch up. Jeff (my brother) attacked on this hill as he always does, he's a billy goat. Rob followed but I was suffering just to stay there. But then decided that well may as well go for it, and just dug in and went. Ended up getting to the top first and shaving about 30 seconds of my personal time for going up this hill.
On Tuesday I thought it'd probably be best to go running seeing as my marathon is coming up in like a week. Just did a short 4K loop around the house, didn't feel like anything special but I was definitely feeling the effects of a difficult monday night.
Yesterday (Wednesday) I went for a slightly longer run to the tune of 10k, I took it at a slower pace (Around 9 min/mile) just to make sure the legs are there and it's still functioning well. It was supposed to be my so called "rest" day but I kinda felt the need/want to go run and so I did. It's nice that we have decent weather finally here in calgary.
So that's all there is this week, it's raining outside now so don't know how/if the weather will hold up for training tonight
~Cheers
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