This weekend
August 23rd, 2009 by Will
I pulled up from London pretty well in the end.
One of my competitors and friends Clark Ellice is down from New Zealand, he’s a good athlete and were getting our heads stuck into this last block of training for just one more hard week this year and it’s gone really well so far. I think that my race on the Gold Coast has the potential to be my best race of the year. My sessions are going the best they have ever gone.
Last night I did a really nice controlled set of 12×1k, with 200m jog recovery (very slow jog mind!) in 3:02’s for the first 4, 2:55’s for the 2nd set and then I got Nathaniel to take out the first 300m before I came round him and finished it off with 4 2:46’s which I was really happy with. I felt in very good condition. I just have to see out this next week the way I have been, get on the plane feeling good then the hope that the jet lag doesn’t screw me!
The next day we went out on the bikes for a 2hr ride, including about 30 minutes of hard riding, which was pretty rough after the day before! I felt ok though and afterwards headed down to Nottingham to the National Relays to help my local club score a result to be happy with!
I went first, handing over to Matt Chandler, Tom Vickery 3rd and Mark Matthews 4th. I came out the water right up there and to my suprise the boys did a cracking job of holding our position in 4th! We were 1:45 behind the leaders TFN, and 2nd place was another minute up the road. I felt surprisingly good on my bike and managed to get us up to 2nd + a lead! The boys again built on that and we ended up starting the run 2mins 50 behind the leaders and 2mins 30 infront of 3rd team! I didn’t max out on the run, I have a big week ahead of me, but the boys smashed it and we came in in 2nd with much more professional teams surrounding us! I was stoked with our effort, what a great day out! Getting on for 300 odd teams…Buzz!
Other things on my mind are a huge change around in British Triathlon support up here in Loughborough. I wont go into it, but I may lose my current coach…I’m going to fight this one till one of us goes down!
Peace out
oh yea… My Team mate Gavin Noble, absolutely smashed Yokohama World Championships Series rocking in 11th. Thats a great result, good on ya Gav!
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