What would you not be?

I had a bit of time to myself this morning to ponder some of the deeper questions of life. Such as:

Which piece of training equipment would you least like to be?

And I would have to say that for me the answer to that is the sweat towel I use when I am on the trainer. I can't think of a piece of equipment that has a more unpleasant and thankless task as that towel.

"So what do you do?"
"I am a sweat towel, I mop up lots of sweat and the occasional bit of snot"
"Oh. Must get great rewards to put up with that?"
"Well I get washed now and then and thrown in a corner."
"Ahh, I see. Good luck with that then..."

See my point. Pretty much all negatives there. I really can't think of a single upside to that towel's existence. Oh well, we all have our parts to play.

Anyway, as you may have guessed, I was on the trainer this morning. The session was a couple of hours which necessitated a ridiculously early start to get the session done before work. How early? About 4:10am early. That in turn meant that I was in bed before 9:00am last night. Woooo, the wild life of a triathlete. My evening last night looked like this:

Dinner
Kids to bed
Strength work and stretching
Bed.

Who I am I kidding that is what every night looks like.

Moving on.

The session went well. It was the same session that nearly resulted in my untimely demise last Friday. Thankfully it went more smoothly this morning. No untimely demises today. Still a tough session, but more of it was attacking and less of it was just holding on. Having said that though, two hours is a long time on the trainer. Around the upper limit of what I would willingly do regularly. One of the things that I like about the trainer, but also one of the things that I find hardest is that there is no down time. No coasting, no stopping at lights etc. It is even a bit difficult to change position and get out of the saddle. Two hours of going. In fact I find that for any session significantly over an hour I really need to build in a break or two. I think of them as a simulated lights stop. Really just a chance to give the body a break from the saddle, relieve some of the more sensitive pressure points if you catch my drift. I am not sure numbness is a good thing...

The rest of training today is a pretty solid run this afternoon. Unfortunately Perth today is hotter than Venus, a forecast of 41 with afternoon storms. Depending on what weather actually turns up I will play the run by ear. I am actually after some warmer conditions given I am racing up in the Philippines in a couple of weeks. But for me temperatures around the 40 degree mark move through warmer and into the extreme region. My experience around those sorts of conditions tells me to be careful. One trip to the hospital with heat stress is enough for one lifetime thank you.

If I don't run tonight then I will move the session to the morning and then rearrange my swimming for the week. Either option should work.