Where does the time go? I'm sitting with all my gear packed up around me ready to head off to the European Championships in Athlone, Ireland......
It's only been a month since I raced at Fritton but it's not been an easy one to get the balance of training/competition right. After racing triathlon for 5 years it's amazing how the body can continue to confound and surprise - not always in a positive way!
After Fritton I was away for a week so training was zero. This was always planned (although not ideal), but the following week I attempted to make up for this shortfall in time and rather overdid it. I raced two 25 mile time trials over a weekend in the middle of June, and put in the worst two performances I think I've ever done. It didn't take a huge leap to realise that I'd overtrained, but it surprised me that I could hurt my body so much in only 5 days of training (albeit very intense training + a day of food poisoning.....)
Since that week I've had to drop the training and intensity quite a bit, and just take it a lot more on feel. This meant a DNS at Dambuster Triathlon unfortunately as I didn't think that racing it would do me any favours. However, I did a 10 mile Open Time Trial on my local dual carriageway course and wasn't a million miles (30 seconds) off a PB in 21.57.
.....So that leaves me sitting here with all my gear around me. I'll see what the race holds - I certainly would say I'm where I planned to be by this point at the start of the season, but we can never quite plan for everything. July is going to be very tough to fit in any meaningful training at all, so I'll give the race my all and see where it gets me.
