Burnham Tri: Final prep

[andygates]

Pretty much into the final prep for Burnham now. Which consists of:

* Every night this week, swimmy goodness. Stroke practice, taking it easy. Up to 40 lengths now, so there's hope that the 20 needed at speed might happen without too much drama. More tonight, working on 50m and 75m blocks and trying to keep it easy and not tiring. The 500m on race day will still be the first time I've done that distance in one go, though.

* Bike prep: tiny tweaks to saddle position since fitting the Storika bondage saddle; it's spot on now and holds me like a stern glove. Been getting used to the tri bars (and drinking from the wazzy bottle) and trying to discipline myself into not leaping out of the saddle on every climb! And enjoying doing the Ullrich Grind - head down, silly grimace, belly breathing, big gear. Full tool kit will be going with me, natch; I'll lube and pump th ebike on Saturday. No more adjustments - it's bedded in nicely and I'm not risking it. I know the form with last-minute tweaks.

* Run: A couple of 5ks, with some lamppost intervals, nothing serious. Calves are tight as buggery. I know I *can* run faster than I *do* run, need to address the headology of that.

Just a couple of swim drills to go and then it's game time, so here's to hoping. I have Xeeny's good name to preserve, after all...

Comments

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Are you up to 40 lengths crawl now?

Good man!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Cheers m'dear! Slow, mostly in 25s and 50s, and with lots of rest. But nothing motivates like a deadline, eh?

(Plus I realised that unless I did get up to speed pretty fast, I'd be washed out to sea and be eaten by hagfish come Bude)

Dead chuffed with the bilateral breathing.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I haven't done 40 crawl yet, but then I don't have time to hang around getting my breath back in between sets. I might have to let my distance take a knock and start doing crawl for my entire session, though, because this knee is not getting better.