A testing week

View from Ditchling Beacon, 04.03.16

29th March 2016 provided a testing week for me in more than one way! My week was characterized by hard efforts in training and big efforts outside of training.

Tuesday saw the dreaded spring Wattbike test, a 20 best effort to give an idea of the one hour threshold power that is sustainable.  Having just completed a 10 minute test before I apprehensively set off know the pain that was due.  After 3 minutes it was confirmed exactly how much it hurt and after 20 minutes I came up with an average power of 246 watts, not the 250 I was hoping for but not a million miles off with a W/KG of 3.56 and an average heart rate of 187BPM.  All in all a good benchmark to set and something I can repeat come the autumn to see what level my riding has improved.

The majority of the rest of the working week was filled with university assignments and interviews for my teaching training starting (hopefully) in September.

Blue skies over Ditchling Beacon 04.03.16

Friday saw some of the best weather of the year so far and with my PGCE interview finishing early, it seemed rude not to head out on a trail run.  I had the pleasure of being able to run from the interview university straight on to the trail, up to Ditchling Beacon, east on the South Downs Way to Southease where I jumped on the train back to uni.

Lewes from the South Downs Way 04.03.16

 


As far as longer training runs for the London Marathon go I can't imagine it getting much better and I only hope conditions are as good in one months time for good friend of mine Kevin Draper to smash the South Downs Way 50 trail run!

With a steadier week next week, training will hopefully resume with normal service!





Strava log of the SDW run: https://www.strava.com/activities/508865399