This day is testing me big time. I've just got back from a pleasant 6h ride from Carlton North, collected Princess up the Calder to Macedon we went, then climbed the steep (front) side of the mountain - some nice 14deg gradients, a double donut stop in Woodend, back across to Gisborne to Melton and back home down the Western Hwy.
We didn't ride at warp speed, BUT, quick enough for a 6h outing, especially in the hills too, tough! Spending 6h in the saddle riding hilly terrain takes something out of you, it was damned hot too. The last 1h was a suffer fest, it got tough from hour 5 to 6.
So now, I've jammed a 5hite load of coffee, pancakes, nutella, peanut butter, ice cream, nutri grain down the cake hole and in 1.5h time, I'm out there for the REAL TEST. A 2h 50min run, part with Damo, about 1:40 and Damo will transform into Bobby Bouche and play water boy, should be nice and warm, 35 deg C in about 1.5h time. PHUK!
Oh the things we do to ourselves by choice, nothing better than suffering for your sport. The more I suffer now, the harder I will be in 28 days time when I go to war with the rest of Oz at Port Macq.
I expect I'll be an absolute mess by 6:30pm tonight, tongue hanging out, probably incoherent, well and truly on the rivet.
So, in the words of Captain, it's time to take the "pain sandwhich" and suffer for my sport.
GGGGrrrrrr
Komo
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- A former triathlete who has hung up the Speedos and Asics, added a Pinarello FP2 to my stable which includes a Cervelo P3C and am entrenched in road cycling. I came to the realisation many years ago that cycling is my passion, the other two disciplines just got in the way.
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2 Responses to Suffer for your sport
Komo, the day of testing is in 4 weeks - what you do in this lead in time will allow you to reflect, on the day before the race, "I've done the work - I have the experience - I am this race". Yes you now have the experience, the knowledge to be the race - you are the swim, you are the ride, you are the run. This is the time when the pain is insignificant. The elation of being engulfed by the energy the race generates runs your body to the end - the best race ever. Train hard and race day is yours. I am with you all the way through this time.
Big Boy
Komo, backing up for a 2hr 50m run after six hours in the saddle sounds tough, smells tough, looks tough, well actually it is tough or tough for a NORMAL person. However, a challenge like that is something that an athlete with goals for 2008 like you have, make this day of 'suffer for your sport' reinforce the fact you are leaving no stone unturned in prep.
It is an admirable fact that you can hold a great conversation whilst running into training hours7,8 & 9 with 37 degs of heat, whilst holding form and showing no physical effects of being K&^ted.
Great work
Bobby Bouche (Damo)
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