After 3 days of enforced rest, I was all ready to re-start my sputtering campaign. I was due to ride 120 km with the FOTR gang and a reunion dinner beforehand certainly helped in the carbo laoding but this was undone by some alcohol ingestion( definitely not so clever) although I tried to do so moderately. I had just finished my antibiotic course and was beginning to feel a little better.
I woke up at 2:30 am and was ready for SE and PK at 330 am to do the 4 loops of CCR and selarang. Forgot i was on call and on the first loop had a number of calls and issues to sort out causing me to miss the turn on the road to the climb. Met the second wave guys( CH, SY, JN, WL) at 530 am for the remaining 3 loops.
By the 4th loop, I was feeling tired, and could not get comfortable whether it was riding aero or straight up on the saddle. there was a niggling tug at the insertion of my hamstrings but we kept at a speed of 31 km/h. I told myself to dig deep mentally and focused on deep controlled breathing.
There was a quiet air of achievement as we crossed 125 km, of breaking through the pain barrier. One of the things about training a race like this was personally redefining for myself what was possible and reconsidering my own limits and that the improbability was really an obstacle of the mind and not of the body.
I had the niggling discomfort all the day long but went out on a run( 15 km) on the hills of clementi and nus at 1030 which went well. My HR though was going at 160 throughout and i perspired bucketloads but finished strong.
On Tuesday, FOTR's gathered again this time on a 80 km ride through Mandai, Neo Tiew and Buroh, Keppel, this time a t a slower average speed of 25-26 km/h.
Its down to the last month of training now; and I think the aerobic base training would shift into a different gear into more race specific training and taper for the last 4 weeks for me.
Target times for the Aviva 70.3:
Swim 740-840( 60 minutes swim)
Bike 840-1155( 3 hrs 15 minutes)
Run 1155-1410( 2hr 15 min)
overall: 6:30
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