Done...

It's been a crazy couple of days. Tomorrow will be the third day in a row I've needed to be up early to catch a flight. The upside is this one's to Kona.

After flying a total of 4000 km to and from Winnipeg, I arrived home at 1 pm today tired and really didn't feel like training. All I wanted to do was sleep.

I gave it a lot of thought and was calculating if I missed training today, "how would I catch up tomorrow? We're flying to Kona and wouldn't get in until around 11 pm Toronto time (5 pm Kona Time) and not sure how I'd feel physically. I was also concerned about missing a third day of training in a row.

In the end, I "pushed" myself out the door and did about 3 hours of training. I swam, biked and ran. Unfortunately my buttocks / hamstring only felt marginally better.

Without question I needed to run. I think it was wise that I took the "legs out for a light jog". There's so many other parts, like the quads, calf's and tendons, that need a regular workout to stay strong and sharp.

It's pretty much an easy schedule of training from now until next Saturday's race. My hope is a couple more days of rest and no long runs will help my discomfort injury get better. I'm glad it's going to be lighter training, I'm close to burn out, again.

I was reading the "Triathlon Bible" and it says that you have to go very close to the line of "over training" in order to shoot up to "peak performance". I'm definitely on that bubble. August and September where lots of training mileage months. Not to mention December 2009 through to July 2010.

Actually, now that I think of it, it's been 11 months of high mileage training and even then, I only had a three week semi-break from the previous season of racing. In fact, it's probably close to 20 months of fairly intense training without much of a break.

It's time for a well deserved break.

When I got finished today's training it was 8 pm and I still needed to pack, which took me two hours of high intensity focus. I wanted to make sure I didn't forget anything. This being my 3rd flying destination Ironman, the packing of the bike felt like "old hat".

By the time I was done, I was beat and hungry and pulled a John Barclay and picked up a "Quarter Pounder and Cheese" from McDonald's.

Right now I can feel I'm in the home stretch. Next post will be from Kona, providing Air Canada does their job and gets me and my gear there, which is always a crap shoot.

Time for Bed.

The photo today is of a sweat band that Davis gave me yesterday. I'm definitely going to use it when appropriate and I'm sure it will get well used.

Swim - 45:55 / 2000 meters

Bike - 1:39:44 / 51.14 km / 30.8 kph avg

Run - 33:10 / 5.95 km / 5:34 per km avg pace / 136 avg hr