Found One

Well whatever I did yesterday seemed to work because I managed to get through my ride with only  on the smallest amount of rain last night. Perfectly timed as well (through pure luck) because no sooner was I home than it started to absolutely belt down with rain. Phew.

This morning I headed back down to the pool for my first post-race swim with Swim Smooth. It went quite fine. Not particuarly earth shattering, and I was surprised by just how flat my arms were still feeling, but it was good to be back in the pool. Talking to coach Paul afterwards, he said that it was obvious that all the people who raced where all still feeling it a bit. Oh well that is all part of racing.

A bit of exciting news yesterday, I managed to find a race. If you read my blog yesterday you will have read that I was struggling to find a race to do during the Australian winter. I am very jealous of the pros who simply pack up and head over to the US to do the season over there. Oh well. Anyway the race I found was an Olympic Distance up in Townsville in July. As you may remember, Olympic Distance triathlons aren't something I have done a lot, Shoalwater a few weeks ago being my first. But I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the Shoalwater race, and I have to admit I did better than I was expecting. So I thought I would give another one ago, besides it was a choice between doing this race, or doing no race, so it wasn't a hard choice. Plus I have never been to Townsville.

I am quite looking forward to the speed work that will come with training for an Olympic. I am quietly hopeful that any speed I find will work its way into my Half Ironman races. That is the plan anyway. No matter what happens, I am just happy to have something to train for, I don't do well with aimless training. Having said that, I am also looking forward to having a block of relatively low pressure training for a while. The race in Townsville isn't for 9 weeks or so, so I have heaps of time. As a result the next few weeks of training will just be good old fashion base work.

Busselton was good, and I am never going to knock back a result like that, however, the preparation always felt like a race against time. Just how fit could I get before race day. In my mind the real rebuilding of fitness for the rest of the year starts on Monday. I am hoping that Monday will be the beginning of the road that takes me through to end of the year, and all the races in between.

I am undecided what is on the program for tomorrow morning. Potentially a ride. However, if anyone thinks I am getting out of bed to go riding in the rain, they are kidding themselves. So what I do tomorrow will depend a bit on what the weather decides to do. Forecast is for isolated showers, so I may just plan to do for an easy run instead, I don't mind doing that in isolated showers.

We shall see.