Good Day

Good day of training today. Really good actually.

The day started off on the bike. Nice round 100km with some effort thrown in. It was quite windy and so I was worried that it was going to be a horrible ride. Turns out that it wasn't. I headed down the freeway and had a bit of a cross head wind as I headed south, but it didn't really seem to get in the way. Once I turned though, the cross tail that I had just booted me along. It ended up being the fastest ride I have ever done outside of a race. Felt good the whole way too.

This afternoon I was down to the pool for a swim. Once again, it just felt good. Good connection with the water, strong through the water, didn't fatigue that much. Just a really satisfying session.

In many ways it doesn't feel like I raced a week ago. For whatever reason (I have my theories) I seem to have recovered from last weekend's race quite nicely and am now not really feeling any after effects. Well not many anyway, but more on that in a sec. 

Tomorrow the only session on the agenda is a brick in the morning. Sort of a brick anyway, the run is more of a run/walk. The ride bit I have no qualms about, but the run I will wait and see. I have a bit of a tender spot on my right shin left over from the race, about the only bit of me that is sore. It has been getting a lot better over the last few days and I suspect it is nearly sorted. However, I have had stress fractures before, and as someone once wisely told me, you can't outrun a shin splint. I am not getting all hypercondriatic about this, a shin splint is typically just muscle soreness or strain and that  all this is . However, I also know that that is how stress fractures start. I have distinct memories of 'running through' the pain, until one day I simply couldn't anymore. Given that, I would prefer for it not to be sore before I continue to push it. I will see how it feels in the morning. I will definitely go for a walk off the bike anyway. That may include some running if the shin continues to improve in the morning. I had better be careful, if I continue like this somebody might accuse me of learning from my previous mistakes.