Well a new week and we started sunday with a ride with 5 in the group. AY our resident champion cyclist joined us and we had a great bike through our usual haunt. A 5 am ride starting from bukit timah through Mandai road and then charged up Rifle Range road. We all nodded in the affirmative when we are at the end of the RRR:" what a great workout!" while still catching our breaths.( 45 km 1:50)
We finished up and went on to breakfast. WL made us a superb breakfast before we broke up. I had enough energy to run 5 km after that in 33 minutes which was at RPE3 but felt more like RPE5!
The workout week ended with me completelt a 11:49 total for the week.
Perhaps it was the strenous week or it was the first day of work in the year but when i hit the pool on monday, I was quite tired and only managed 22 laps and was done in half hour. I managed little better on Tuesday when i could only have time for a 10 km run( done at RPE 3; 1:06).
This morning I met JN and we joined the joyriders. Perhaps, it was the lingering fatigue but I did not start well and had to play catchup adn ended up being dropped big time. JN and I struggled dead last and we were quietly grateful to JL for staying with us and giving us tips and encouraging us.JL commented " dude, you are actually not a bad cyclist, you just have not developed the technique" . Wow, what a nice way of breaking the news in the softest possible way. Thankfully, I am in the habit of getting dropped so often that I am used to it adn I think it actually pushed me to try even harder. Today was another one of those days. I pushed so hard and tried so hard I have an abrasion on my right buttock, which I did not realise until I was seated on my chair performing surgery. Buttocks are supposed to exist in your subconscious and subliminal plane of thought until 2 scenarios: one when you are in the act of defaecation and the other when you have a lousy lesion in your end, be it hemorrhoids or abrasions! I finished the 43km in 1:20 and then proceeded for a brick run of 4 km which i covered at 30 minutes. That would make my tally of training to 3:20 this week
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