Well the good news is that I’ve completed the three week cycle and this is a rest week!
Over the past three weeks I swam 22,000m, cycled just over 20 hours and ran 170km and included in that three long brick workouts of 100k cycle/12k run, 105k cycle/13k run and yesterday a 120k cycle/6k run. My swimming highlight was a 4000m swim on Friday in 1:20:09. Very happy with that swim.
During my long ride on Sunday at the 50k mark, I felt something wasn’t quite right with my right pedal or cleat, looking down I saw my crank arm wobbling and seconds later I saw a piece fly off and instant my crank arm was no longer attached to the bottom bracket, just my foot! I stopped, spent 15 mins looking for the retainer nut, finally found it and get it all back together again, thanks to the fact that I was carrying a multi-tool!
On the way back down Durham Road 30, a car swerved in front of me, dropped two wheels on to the soft shoulder and lost control. It shot across the road and back again before launching into a corn field. The dust flew everywhere and when I arrived a few seconds later the car was upside down and a total wreck. I jumped off the bike and ran over, the woman driver was in the back of the car. Unbelievably she didn’t seem injured, no apparent broken bones or serious bleeding. I got her out away from the car. She was very lucky, she could have easily gone into the northbound traffic or hit a telephone pole. A few other people stopped, called 911 and I was outta there!
Rest week…aaahhh! After this weekend’s action and the past three weeks, I’ll take it easy this week and keep the training to about six to eight hours total. I will plan out the next three week build cycle over the next couple of days. I will be putting more hours in on the bike and get the long ride up into the 150k/6 hour range.
