{"id":427,"date":"2013-04-29T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2013-04-29T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:41:24","slug":"10-weeks-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/10-weeks-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"10 weeks to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well 68 days now actually.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just finished a sustained 3 week block of training culminating in my longest training session yet on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with the week in Mallorca and then 2 weeks of increased planned training I&#8217;ve done some good numbers in this period.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>29 activities in 21 days.<\/li>\n<li>73K run in 7 hours.<\/li>\n<li>492K cycled in just under 20.5 hours, 125K of that on a turbo<\/li>\n<li>11000m swum in about 5 hours<\/li>\n<li>You can add 2 vets matches to that total &#8211; also, we won the league with a 100% record. Yay.<\/li>\n<li>Weight hovering at a couple of lbs above 13 stone.<\/li>\n<li>28 Strava PRs in the month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was supposed to do a four hour ride last weekend but a disaster with a popped rivet less than half way in put paid to that so this weekend it was with some trepidation I looked at a 5 hour ride with a 1 hour run off. \u00a0I misread my plan on Thursday and missed a second session on the turbo which irritated me a little but I must admit my body enjoyed the 2 day break from running and cycling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-428\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/80miler.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-428\" alt=\"Chepstow\/Monmouth\/Usk 80 mile route\" src=\"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/80miler-1024x676.png\" width=\"540\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/80miler-1024x676.png 1024w, https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/80miler-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/80miler.png 1137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chepstow\/Monmouth\/Usk 80 mile route<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I set off riding up through Chepstow and Tintern feeling really good on the climbs &#8211; there&#8217;s some decent elevation there but I didn&#8217;t feel stressed by them at all. \u00a0Making sure to fuel regularly &#8211; combination of ISOgels, Nectar drink and some solid food (a mcvities apple bar and a flapjack) &#8211; I never felt that I was fatiguing and was back into Caerleon almost 30 minutes up on my conservative schedule. \u00a0I road some windy laps of the flats at the end to make up the required time and beat my longest EVER ride by 50KM and set a new PB for climbing in a ride too. \u00a0The Cap Formentor ride from a couple of weeks ago had been the previous record holder &#8211; albeit that almost as much climbing in less than half the distance. \u00a0The discrepancy in ride time to actual time above was down to a mechanical adjustment 2K in but after that I rode straight through &#8211; the only short stop being due to sheep in the road. Those from Wales will sympathize.<\/p>\n<p>The ride finished and I was straight onto the run (T2 time of 8 minutes including a trip to the loo) and I was\u00a0surprisingly\u00a0comfortable turning in sub 6 minute kilometres for 58 minutes. \u00a0Tired afterwards but very pleased. \u00a0Sunday morning was 1h45 run in which I covered a fairly lumpy 17KM with a few walks but nothing of more than 20 seconds and usually less. \u00a0This weekend has given me a lot of confidence and I&#8217;m going to enjoy this recovery week which will come to a crashing halt when I do the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarnhelensportif.org\/events\/sarn-helen-sportif\">&#8220;Sarn Helen Sportif&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0next Sunday. \u00a0That&#8217;s about the same distance and Saturday but includes a couple of bigger lumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well 68 days now actually. I&#8217;ve just finished a sustained 3 week block of training culminating in my longest training session yet on the weekend. Starting with the week in Mallorca and then 2 weeks of increased planned training I&#8217;ve done some good numbers in this period. 29 activities in 21 days. 73K run in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dave","category-triathlon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidandkathryn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}