On the Saturday I had the Midland Road Relays - one of my favourite events as it's a great social occasion and an excellent opportunity to catch up with the rest of the team as well as various running friends from Uni who I only see at the big races.
Monday: 4 mile easy run + physio exercises
Tuesday: 4 x 1km - this time I was running through the trees and kept losing the signal on my watch! Felt a bit better than last week but no way fast enough to suggest I should be asking our team captain for a place on the A team for the Relays. + Physio exercises
Wednesday: 20 min bike + 35km/h, 95rpm. Now I've got my cadence monitor on my bike I'm focusing on getting my rpm consistently over 90. Physio exercises. Evening - 5.5 mile run. IT Band sore. Unsurprisingly I may have overdone it over the last few days!
Thursday: Very short swim! Physio exercises + some quality time with the foam roller to try and ease off the IT Band. This coincided with a very busy work day so not being able to train may have been a blessing in disguise for being able to get everything done!
Friday: Double foam roller day! Knee & IT Band sore. Not the best preparation for race day.
Saturday: Midlands Road Relay Champs. Both my knee and IT Band were sore warming up - not the best start! I was running on the B team and going off 2nd so I spent a good 20 mins jogging and then about 15 mins stretching to try and ease off my IT band and prevent any further damage. By the time I put my racers on ready for my leg the knee seemed ok and I was excited to be standing in the handover pen, part of a big race again! I absolutely love this event and with the sun shining and lots of support out on the course, I eased into my running and kept focused on my form to try and protect my niggling injury. I was so happy to be running and racing again I overtook quite a few people - at least 20 including a few men, which was fantastic motivation to keep me moving through the field. I clocked 16.58 for the 4.3km leg, and finished 11th fastest of all the leg 2 runners. I guess it was just one of those days when I was so relaxed and enjoying it so much that I managed to tap into all my training reserves from last Winter. Or something like that!! It wasn't an outstanding time, but it was a lot better than I expected - I was thinking around the 18 minute mark would be a good result, especially given my minimal training since April. Maybe all those 6am swim sessions, 2 hour brick sessions and long rides in the Winter were worth it after all, despite never having the triathlon season they were done for!
Here's a lovely photo of me running down the hill towards the lake...yes I can tell I've not been exercising much over the last 5 months, oops!
Sunday: Easy potter round the Wrekin with Juliet - having not been round the Wrekin for months and months I just couldn't resist the opportunity to go for a little run. Needless to say my legs were pretty tired by the end and Sunday evening involved another session with the foam roller.
Looking back I had a pretty good week of training there, but I could really do with less comments saying "IT band/knee sore"! I guess I'll just keep doing what I can and try not to overdo it so it becomes much worse.
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