WEEK 24 IRONMAN TAPER
June 24, 2008Taper Taper Taper. Well i’m now in taper mode & it’s a liltte weird as it seems that i’m not doing any training. I suppose i’m so used to the long weeks & hard training sessions that it’s weird sitting about resting. So as you can gather it’s been a quite weeks training.
So this post will be short & sweet. The weather did take a downturn last week & the day i was supposed to do a easy run it poured from the heavens so ended up running on the bloody treadmill in the gym for an hour. I’m not going to miss doing that & it has to be the most boring aspect of training running on a treadmill. Rested up again on Thursday.
Friday was my last brick session & did an easy 3hr bike followed by an hours easy run so 4hr’s decent training done on Friday. Saturday we were at a wedding so it was nice to take a break from IRONMAN talk & i think Leila will be very happy when this madness is over, but did manage a short 1000m swim early in the morning. Sunday was my 38th Birthday & one of my presents from Leila was an AERO helmet, so it looks like i’ll be at least looking the part in Germany. I may be shite but at least when people see me first they’ll think i’m a PRO. Remember it’s all about looking the part……….
So this weeks training was 2000m swim, 3hr’s Bike, 2hr’s Running & lots of REST……. 12 DAYS & COUNTING…………….
Del boy … happy birthday to you! I bet you thought you’d be taking it easy in your 30s … no chance.
Now only some 9 days to go – like you and all the others, i’m alternating between HIGH and LOW. I’m ready and then i’m nowhere near ready.
This time next week we’re in Frankfurter and the craic will be might
This taper lark isn’t so easy .. .i feel i need to be training – little or no cycling for the last two weeks, i seem to have been tapering for the last fortnight in Salou.
Hope the aero helmet is a nice colour…