It's been 4 long weeks since my last race, but I feel pretty good. I've been doing my best to do at least 45 - 60 minutes a day...and up to 2 hours on weeks not leading up to a race.
A week after Guelph, where I had so many issues with my bike, I decided that it was time to upgrade my bike. I had been researching TT bikes for a while, and was pretty much sold on the Cervelo. After seeing an ad that there would be no taxes for bikes over $2000 at one bike shop, I decided it was time to start seriously looking. I headed up to Velocity Cycle in Orillia, looked at the P2, and 2 days later I was fitted and purchased a Cervelo P2! It is a gorgeous bike and soooo fast! I average 5km/h faster at a casual RPM now than I did on the Opus. My arms have some getting used to when I'm in the aero position, but other than that, it is a magnificent piece of machinery!
Even though I took it easy over the last 4 weeks, I did do a lot of swimming...especially open water swimming down at Kempenfelt Bay. On July 11th, I even swam from Minet's Point to Johnson's Beach, which is a 2KM swim. It was the longest continuous swim I had ever done, and I felt really good during and after the swim. I completed the swim in 42:47, and it probably would have been faster but I lost my rhythm and bearing with about 300m to go. It was a great swim with Ontario's premier tri club...the Barrie TC Baydogs!
I haven't done much speed running, but I have been working on pacing and holding a constant tempo. The weather has been incredibly hot lately, making it difficult to get out and train/run. When I've tried to run in the heat, I haven't been able to complete the run because I've started too fast. I did find one solution to help improve my running without going too fast and escaping the heat. I've ran the Ardagh Bluff trails, and apart from the bugs bouncing off my head, it was a lot of fun. Except for rolling my ankle about 100m from the end of the trail. I'm usually pretty good at avoiding injuries when I roll my ankles, but this one actually hurt as I felt sparklers shooting up my leg and have issues since I did the run. But, I can suck it up as it doesn't hurt too much, and it shouldn't affect me on race day.
Tomorrow I'm off to Gravenhurst for my first Olympic Tri. I've already done the swim and bike of an Olympic distance tri, and felt as though I could have done the run, so I'm pretty confident with the race. I plan on doing the 10:1 method for the run, and really stretching out the Cervelo on the bike. All in all, my goal time is 3:45. I should reach it, but we'll have to see!
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