Daily Archives: May 1, 2011

Totals: April 2011 Training

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Unbelievable as it may seem, another training month is done.  Volume could have been worse, but it also could have been better.

Run is on par to what I expected since the 30k race was done, I was expecting to be lower, but not 36% lower.  This should come back up a little for May, closer to the the 110k mark.

Swim is a little disappointing though.  I was expecting to at least be on par with March, but a few weeks I only managed to get to the pool 3 time instead of 4.  So that volume was down 16%.  Again, for May this should be back up to at least March levels.

Biking: I knew there would be a big spike with the warmer weather showing up (sort of), but I was hoping for more.  But, considering we’ve had rain on 80% of the days in April, I guess I can’t complain.  From what I’ve seen so far, my bike fitness hasn’t drop too bad and should recover fairly quickly once I can start logging some miles consistently.  I expect 300-400 kms in May.

 

Race Recap: Sudbury Rock 10k

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Another easy recap….it didn’t happen.

This time it was sort of out of my control.  Friday morning without warning I woke up around 4:30 AM and felt like a I had a big chunk of something sitting in my stomach, along with plenty of unsettledness in the area.  I had this exact same feeling  a few weeks ago (Jan 18th to be exact);  EXACTLY the same feeling which is really starting to make me wonder what is causing this.  Sure enough, 6:55 AM I made a call to the porcelain god, and again at 8:15 AM.  No answer in both calls.  For the remainder of the day I simply laid on the Laz-boy and watched TV, drank Gatorade once in awhile.  Temperature spike at 101.5F around 2 PM.  It gradually came down to a dull 99F for the remainder of the evening.  I made the call to skip the 6-7 hr trip up north for the race.

Skip to today, Sunday, race day.  Although I do feel better, I’m still not 100% and I definitely wouldn’t be putting out all I could if I would have ran the race, and possibly could delay my recoup from this bug.  It’s unfortunate that this is the 2nd time this year I have a DNS for a race, not to mention the loss of entry fees.

Oh well, back to my regularly scheduled training this coming week.  Next race is May 23rd – The Victoria’s Duathlon.