The last few weeks have been pretty disrupted. We had a family walk planned over the Tora Walk in the Waiarapa in lower North Island. While the walk was only 3 days the travelling and preparation put a pretty sizeable dent in just over a week of training. Then upon the return there is work to catch up on, crises to combat, grumbles to placate. All in all it adversely impacted on 3 consecutive weeks. On the plus side the walk itself was great, rubbish weather, but we all had a great time and the food and scenery was just great. Check out the walk on http://www.toracoastalwalk.co.nz.
Another plus was being back in Wellington and being able to take advantage of Mt Victoria. For those not familiar with Wellington this is an amazing section of inner city greenbelt, rising to almost 200 metres from the harbour. It has amazing tracks, soft underfoot opening up to fantastic views of the harbour and surrounds. When we lived in Wellington this was my favourite training area. So it was great to get back and flog myself up and over the hills.
Anyway as the title suggests the weekend just gone was a pretty good lead in to getting the training back on track. With only 2 weeks to go until the Taupo Half Ironman event (http://www.halfironmantaupo.co.nz) I knew I needed to get some confidence over the distances.
On Friday I started the weekend with a solid lunch time swim session with the Red Dog Tri club. I had considered going running but it was very hot & humid hitting 28C so a swim was a far more pleasant option. A good start to the weekend with 2k lapped out in the hour.
Saturday morning was even hotter. I planned a ride down to Tamborine and back which is around 125k, this went pretty well even with the recorded temp hitting 38 deg. I drank 2 large bottles in the first 3 hours, which was probably not enough and the another 2 in the last 90 minutes. So it was not an overly fast ride averaging only around 27 deg but it was very hot and there was never any attempt to push the pace along.
Finally Sunday, still too hot, and a solid run just short of 2 hours. I drank a lot of water on the way and at times deliberately walked for a minute or two. The focus was to stay out for a long time and by using this as a pacing strategy I managed it. Again the heat made the whole thing a lot harder and there is no way it will feel that hard in Taupo where the temp will be mid 20’s at best.
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