Training has been on and off for the week. A good start with a hill workout on Tuesday.
4 repeats of Oropi Rd hill. 6:01, 5:06, 4:41, 5:58. Trying to find my 'old times' for this hill. I was thinking that my times were in the 6 and 7 minutes but I'll have to dig into the 'archives' to find out. Legs felt strong but I felt sick after the 4:41 effort :)
Couldn't find my old times for that hill. Found the 'entry' but didn't record splits whch is unlike me. I mapped the hill and it is a fraction under 1k so I am very pleased that my (sort-of) warm-up and warm-down efforts were around the 6 minute mark. The 4:41 nearly killed me but it was great fun to stride up the hill.
Wednesday's workout was a desperation last chance workout before my weigh in for the challenge. My eating had been OK for the week but not great and my weight was hovering around the same weight as the previous week. If you put on during the week you have to pay $1 for every 500g. So in an effort not to have to pay I sweated on the windtrainer for an hour. I know how Lester Piggot must have felt now!
The plan worked a little too well really as I weighed in 1.4kg lower than the previous weight. Results were:
Current Weight 85.3kg
Weekly weight loss 1.4kg (although this is two weeks cos I missed last week cos of Jo's op)
Total weight loss 12.2kg
Percentage weight loss 12.5%
I am still leading but there are two others catching me. Both are on 9%. There are 5 weigh ins left so I need to keep on my toes.
Friday was not a good day for weight loss. I was meeting up with a friend (who had been working in Australia) for a drink. I decided I wasn't going to go too mad in the pub but I kinda thought that 'well I'm gonna blow the diet in the pub so might as well make the most of it and eat cr@p during the day'. I had hoped I had left this kind of logic behind but I found myself overeating during the day and then pigging out on meat pie and chips before going out. I even finished off the cold chips still wrapped up in newspaper when I got home from the pub. NOT GOOD!!! If I lose the challenge I will look back at this day and know why! ... saying that, one day shouldn't make too much difference in the overall scheme of things but I can't have too any of them!
This morning was supposed to be my normal Sunday morning 'long' ride but it was p!$$!ng down with rain and I just didn't have the motivation to get out there. I ended up doing a half-hearted half hour on the windtrainer before deciding that outside was the better option. I decided to try a time trial down the Toll Road.
My time wasn't bad at 11:10. This is equal second fastest. I think I would have been faster if the roads weren't so wet and if I hadn't worn my tyre smooth on the windtrainer. Definitely need a different tyre for road/windtrainer work. It felt like my back wheel was slipping on every pedal rotation. I haven't got the smoothest of pedal strokes but this morning was very 'lumpy'. My heart rate was high so I was working fairly hard. I think the average of 159 is probably the highest on that TT. I'm encourage with the 11:10 and think maybe, just maybe I can go Sub11 for that course. We shall see :)
So the week coming up is going to be a recovery week with short, slow workouts. However I have a top secret squirrel plan to get a ride on the Rotorua Half Ironman course. Hopefully the weather will clear up towards the end of the week. With a bit of rest at the start of the week maybe I'll be rested enough for an attack of the course on Thursday or Friday. I hope so.
Right, I'm off to have a kip :)
