This morning was a club brick session - a ride of around 25-30km with a couple hills then a 5km run to finish.
The ride was pretty familiar with the start being the Gloucester Tri course, after clearing Churchdown we went down into Hucclecote, up through Bentham and up to the Air Balloon pub. It wasn't open so we turned left at the top then down Leckhampton Hill into Cheltenham. We all managed to light up the 30mph flash sign on the way down which was pretty cool!
There was a sprint finish with Le Fassett pipping Darren to the max points, next was Mark then me :(
Quick change to the running shoes and a 4.7km loop. We set-off more or less together, after about 1km we were strung out. I pulled away and finished in 20:19, then was Le Fassett closely followed by Mark with Darren (complete with ITB issues) coming in 4th. Not bad considering he only decided to come on the run as we were leaving.
So that was the last proper training session ahead of Blenheim this coming weekend. It's a sprint tri so the training the morning was geared towards that.
My bike is now in for a break and gear service - looks like i need a new chain, new cassette and rear tyre so not going to be cheap! Lets see how it rides when i get it back. I pick it up on Wednesday so will geta couple of short rides in ahead of the weekend.
Otherwise this week will be a couple of high intensity sessions at the gym. A lido swim on Wednesday (i need to try my wetsuit as not even looked at it this season as yet!), and a couple of short runs. Got to keep something in the legs for Sunday!
