Refined

Busy day today. A bit of training this morning followed by a lot of time with the family this afternoon. All up a nice way to spend a day off.

Training this morning was a the normal Swim Smooth session down at Claremont. The old Goldilocks set which I haven't done for a while. Good tough session with 12 x 100m, broken up by 200m, 300m and 400m efforts. I led the lane for the 400m effort and was pleasantly surprised by the time, especially considering it was the last thing we did for the session. Swimming has been feeling good lately and the sessions this week have been quiet confirmation that the good feeling is translating into faster swimming. I am still working fairly consistently on the technique improvements identified during my 1-2-1 video analysis session with Paul Newsome and they are slowly starting to take hold I think. At least I am finding that I am not having to concentrate on them quite so much. Still a long way to go with regards to technique, but these things always happen in baby steps so I am happy to keep chipping away at it. Results through consistent application would be a good motto if you were so inclined.

After swimming it was time for a bit of pilates before spending the rest of the day out at Whiteman Park which is a big nature park out towards the hills of Perth. Lots of fun things out there to keep kids entertained like train rides etc. Made for a long day though, and I am fairly stuffed now.

Today has also been a day of following trialing the pre-race nutrition plan put together for me by David Bryant. Nothing particularly outlandish, but it does contain a few unexpected items. The usual nutrition plan from David contains lots of fibre in the form of vegetables, this is a good way to make sure you are full so that you don't up binging on junk. However, the pre-race plan contains a lot of refined carbohydrates and significantly less vegetables than normal. Usually you would follow this diet for two days before the race and I gather the idea is to try and get a lot of the fibre out of your system before the race. Whilst the fibre is handy during day to day training, for racing it is just unnecessary weight and the pre-race nutrition plan aims to get rid of it. Interesting to see how it goes, certainly I haven't been hungry.

Riding in the morning. Out of the Falco for another blast. A bit of sleep before then though.