Lisa's Holiday, my struggle

So we got back from Airlie after being drenched with rain all weekend only to come back with a cold. This effectively blew the door handles off the weeks training and Tuesday and Wednesday just turned into 'survival' days when your head just felt like it was going to explode at any time.

Started to come good around Friday and have been able to get a bit of cycling in over the weekend, although the sessions felt tougher.

With a new job has come the opportunity to meet some new people who cycle so this mornings ride was probably the biggest Moranbah 'group' ride I have ever seen. 6 in total and with a few more I know of out there that ride, we could almost put together a peleton one day.

With extra numbers comes a bit of extra speed with the drafting effect so the 60km's seemed to fly by.

I will let Lisa explain how the diet challenge went, but she died last night sinking her teeth into some Rocky Road.

Decided to take on the challenge eating only real food to kick start my new direction and commitment to adequately fuelling the body.

What's on the menu....

Breakfast
Banana / 4 Strawberries / 2 Pieces of pineapple

Lunch
Cos Lettuce / Capsicum / 2 Eggs

Snack
Dried apricots / Dried apple / Almonds

For Dinner tonight we will have...
Roast veges.... and some type of meat

Dessert will be...
Fruit salad

Happy Easter

Well how the year flies by.

Took the opportunity to have a long weekend away from Moranbah for a change, so packed the bikes up and headed for Airlie beach. But as has been the usual for our recent trips to Airlie, yet again it has been a wet visit to this area. That makes the last 3 times here, wet visits unfortunately.

Had this plan to really take advantage of the 4 day weekend and rack up a bunch of miles on the bike, but alas it has turned into another rest week. Woke Friday morning with a really sore LH shoulder and also a sore throat. That combined with the rain has meant no swim or ride training to talk about :(

Resting when you are injured and sick is bloody hard on the head and as I have easily given this advice out to others, I decided to listen to myself and enjoy the weekend away, sans no training. Hopefully, I will see the benefit of this decision in the weeks ahead. :)

Transition Week

This week has really been a crappy week when it comes to training. Was meant to be a transition week where I did some unstructured training to keep the body ticking over but less overall volume. What it ended up being was a week of nothing, feeling tired and lethargic throughout. Hopefully, the rest is what my body needed and I can get back into it this week.

The even better news however is that with Easter next weekend and 4 days up in Airlie Beach that small break will do my body and mind the world of good.

Lisa has it even better with school holidays next week so she is really looking forward to them.

IM Australia was run and won today and it never ceases to amaze me how fast everyone is going these days. My AG was sizzling with the TOP 10 and I suspect all the Kona slots being taken with times better than 9:27.

9:27, can you believe that and how fast that is. Certainly makes my goal of getting a qualifying spot a long off dream considering I would need to go an hour quicker.

The other challenge for this weekend has been the requirement for me to be on call for work all weekend. Means no drinking or being to far from the phone at all times since Friday night until tomorrow. Inhibits your movements a bit, especially when Lisa wants to go out partying Friday night. I suppose the upside of that was she had the hangover Saturday and not me

Happy training, ciao