Grand What?

It is not quite 9:30pm and I am absolutely shattered, falling asleep at the keyboard tired. I have been meaning to get around to typing this all day and just haven't quite got there.

Was out on the bike this morning for a fairly lovely long ride. The nice weather continued and I am hoping it might be here for a while. It would be nice to get a little bit of pleasant weather before I have to start complaining about how hot it is.

I had a large number of reasonable length intervals to get through on the bike this morning. I started doing this sort of session before Bintan, and this is the first time I have returned to this sort of interval since that race. Before Bintan I was finding the sessions really frustrating because I just couldn't get the speeds. I would usually finish the sessions feeling a bit low. But today, for the first time since I have started doing this sort of session, they weren't to bad. I still struggled to hit my target speeds, but rather than just being defeated by them, I really felt like I could fight for them. As a result it ended up feeling like a good session rather than a frustrating one. Each time I was having a frustrating session before, I kept telling myself, keep at it, it will get there, this will pay off. Well it hasn't yet, but today was the first time that I got an inkling that it might.

The only downside of the ride this morning was that the wind came up while I was out, which meant my lovely conditions became a raging headwind for the last 20km. It was not the way in which I wanted to finish the ride. I was absolutely shattered by the time I finally rolled back into my drive.

Frustratingly there was no Swim Smooth Saturday session on today. It was cancelled, apparently there was some sort of football game on over in Melbourne and they figured nobody would want to turn up to the pool. Oh well.

Back on the bike in the morning for a ride/run session. I think I might go and collapse into bed and grab some sleep before then.