Daz Does Tri

Race week is done. Lines are in the sand, lessons learned and every other sports related chit chattery in the book. From now on, no time for nonsense it's either happening or it's not. Race wise I have nothing in the way. In 5 weeks it'll all be done but 5 weeks is a huge amount of time to move forward. This block is going to be 2 weeks build up, then a week backing off into a race, a final build week adding some heavier work and then again a taper into race week. Last week taper recap Running was all either shakeouts or races. Probably 30 miles in total. No S&C sessions. Taper wise I felt I nailed the training load for the 2 races arnd arrived in best shape run wise to get the best performances in. Health wise, 100% I wasn't right. Lots of shit going around and I have felt like I have had something in my system that's slowed me down. Not real bad but enough to take the edge off. Social wise it was a nightmare. Out Thursday night until late and out Saturday unti

Training recap... Basically Eddington is strong, Track Thursday is OK and Track Saturday is tired. Rinse and repeat !! I know I am in much better shape than last year but I'm struggling to replicate that training into races. I know I need to relax, keep going as I am and it'll happen. So standard pre-race faffing about. 10 mins easy shakeout and felt good. John picked me up and we headed to Lee Valley. Arrived well early. Couple of trail laps easy. Sat around and then hit the warm up proper. 2 trail laps at tempo - time to bring back the tempo warm ups! Was in race 2 of the open tonight. Threw me a bit as I thought that was too fast for me. Felt OK on the warm up BUT my guts were not good. I was shitting the last of my lunch out with less than 10 minutes to kick off - not idea. I wasn't 100% I'd be out of the toilet at one stage. Lined up, 11 people in my race. Bang, and we are off. Made the decision pre-race to head straight to the back so as not to start too fast. Mis