Somewhat different flavour of ill this morning. Clearly moving through the stages of this but I'd much rather be at the not-ill-any-more stage, when does that one come? Pretty confident I'll be able to get through at least three days of JK, a bit more worried about recovering and travelling well to Hungary...
British a slightly distant thought at the moment. Options are probably to take a rest week between Hungary and that and just live with feeling a bit rusty, or push through to race that too and then waste a week in Font as a rest week. Or ideally to just get better and realise my legs are gonna be fine to pick up where we left off. But that might be wishful thinking.
Sprint-O1:09:26 12.04 km (5:46 / km) +6m5:45 / km ahr:147 max:167 (sick)shoes: Adidas Adizero Takumi Sen 8
Maybe a slight improvement today? Head feels clearer even if other symptoms aren't improving much.
Sprint intervals round North Cambridge again with Paul, planned by Tom. A winning combo. Not as clean as I'd like trying to orienteer at pace but improved throughout. Main bit of learning is to plan the whole leg not just the start. So important in a world with artificial barriers.
Technically this doubled as a taper session so: 3"17" @4:08s [2'45"] 3'11" @3:42s [4'14"] 3'59" @4:14s [3'12"] 4'35" @4:07s [5'06"] 3'30" @3:59s
11km +121. To Epping, ft. some of the most outrageously aggressive anti-bike driving I've ever seen. I think we should start hitting people with the cars they want to buy before they're allowed to drive them. Pricks.
Forest-O2:19:22 19.41 km (7:11 / km) +268m6:43 / km ahr:143 max:177 (sick)shoes: VJ Bold X (dobs)
Woke up to feel some minor progress illness-wise - the coughing took longer to start and was maybe a bit less bad in other dimensions that I'll leave to the imagination.
So off to Epping with Paul for some big trainings. Some lovely multi-tekkers courtesy of Tom. I'll analyse in more detail later but some good, some bad, learning generated. Time forced some cutoffs on the way back but 20k of forest training is just what the doctor ordered. Very very enjoyable and didn't notice the illness too much. All ready now.
Cycling27:16 ahr:125 max:158 (sick)
10km +0 Back to the station. Only one really terrible driver this time, who rolled down the window to wave me closer to the side, presumably so that he could pass me with even less clearance. I resisted the temptation to give a less friendly hand gesture back.
Pretty suboptimal to be ill enough to affect training a week out from JK, but got in a long run, two sessions (of sorts), and some forest training (of sorts). On Monday I already knew I might have to prioritise key sessions over volume, so it is what it is. Will try to make the most of Epping tomorrow and then focus fully on getting healthy for the start line on Friday.
Running (road)1:21:09 15.7 km (5:10 / km) +45m5:06 / km ahr:142 max:171 (sick)shoes: Adidas Adizero (flats)
Feeling marginally better today so went for calculated risk - track session but be stubbornly slow. Trying to avoid breathing too hard and keeping the zones as low as possible. Not exactly the classic approach to track but you play the hand you're dealt.
4*k[90"], 300[3']
Ks @3.26*,3.26*,3.20,3.20 300s @56*,56,56 *Run in lane 3
Was told the last 300 would be flat out so skipped it because that's the worst thing I could do for my lungs, but then Phoebe and JJ did it at normal pace followed by a fifth set, which was annoying cos I would've joined that had I known. Oh well, really no need to push it, just wanted to get something out of the day. Nice consistent paces too.
Often when I've trained through illness before I've found out it was a bad move 20 mins after getting home, but no sign of that today. Nice.