I counted back from last week and realised I think the longest I slept was about 4 hours last Monday night, so suffice to say that its been a really interesting week!
Most of the sleeplessness was work related, and I ended up doing not a whole hell of a lot of anything except work (and fly around the country) last week, so I really wasn't holding out for any major feats of heroics with the weekend's training, but it turned out quite well in the end. Saturday was mainly beach work, had really tight calves and a full blown asthma attack towards the end (always really great in front of a group of people....) but hung in there. We did mainly beach work and some interesting path finding in and around Rocket Road and Sandy Bay. It was quite wet - I think that's what made my chest close up as I went up the first sand dune.
Anyway, Saturday night was Kent's bachelors - managed to keep it (mostly) tidy, but got home quite late (nothing like a 90 minute stroll through the streets to get back to my car to loosen up the legs...) and then the parallel path along Chapman's Peak on Sunday with the usual gang (Rob, Carla, Lisa, John, Trevor and birthday girl Monique) - had the usual tight calves, not too worried, I missed my appointment with Chris twice last week because of work, I am sure its nothing he can't sort out. Once the tightness left, I must admit I felt really good, and myself, Rob and Lisa did the return leg along the path while the others took the steep path down to the road.
Tried Rob's suggestion of longer strides in the shale on the usual section just before the end of the run, it worked well - thanks dude.
After the rush of last week, I decided not to force anything and just lazed around watching tv this morning and did a gym session in the afternoon - my arms are sooo sore now -funny how quickly you lose it!
Anyway, more recover and taper to look forward to this week. Hopefully can swim and gym a bit more, feel like I have neglected them a bit.
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