On the road again

Well I finally got back out and did some training today. Very happy about it. I am still not 100%, my throat is a bit sore still etc, but I am feeling pretty okay. Good enough to train anyway. Given how I am feeling I decided to compromise a little bit on the sessiont today. Training today was supposed to be a long ride with some tough intervals and a run. Training tomorrow is supposed to just be a long ride. In the end I decided to do the long ride today, just to give my body a bit longer before really hammering it. Unfortutunately the trade off is that I have made what probably would have been a very tough session this morning, into a super tough session tomorrow morning, once you add fatigue into the equation. Oh well. It was something I was aware of when making the decision, but I am hoping that the extra time I have given myself to recover from the cold will make it worth it.

On top of that the weather was pretty average this morning. Not terrible, just simply not great, pretty windy. The sort of weather that doesn't lend itself to intervals. The weather is supposed to be a bit friendlier tomorrow, so hopefully my decision to swap the sessions around works out from that perspective.

In the past when I have had rides like this I have headed south along the cycleway that follows the freeway. What I have referred to before as the triathlete's highway. It is a great bit of cycleway, allowing you to get in at least 150km of cycling almost completely uninterrupted, no lights, no road crossings, nothing. Unfortunately it is also pretty dull. I was thinking of heading there this morning, but in the end decided against it. I have quite a few rides like this one coming up and so I figured I am likely to be seeing quite a bit of the triathete's highway in the coming months. So this morning I decided to take the opportunity to go somewhere else. Besides heading south along the freeway this morning would have meant 60kms of tail wind, followed by 60kms of head wind, and to be perfectly honest I am not sure I was up for that. So instead I took a much more roundabout route. I headed around the river a couple of times and filled in some time doing laps along the Shelley foreshore (for those who know Perth). It wasn't exactly inspiring either, but it had the benefit of breaking up the wind so I was never slogging into in one direction for too long.I was still shattered when I got home, but it was a great feeling to have completed the ride, I am not sure I would have managed that if I had headed down the freeway.

If everything goes to plan tomorrow's ride will be the longest one I have ever run off. Hopefully everthing goes to plan...

Now, I think I have just enough time for some stretching before collapsing into bed.