Sunday 23rd feb

This morning i decided it would be an excellent idea to get up at 4 and go out on the bike to avoid the heavy rain coming later. This didnt go well at all. I decided, that my power meter was playing up and was reading too high in the last week or so. Giving an estimated ftp of over 300 watts.

4 o clock in the morning is not the time to attempt this. It then started reading ridiculously low .less than 100 watts for the next hour. Fun. Its pretty cold out there in the dark.Not too many people about either. It seemed to settle down and went back to reading what it was a week ago, which , i think, is just a little bit low.

Never really got going on this ride. From the Dock to carew to canaston st clears and back to saundersfoot pembroke . home. Didnt feel good at any part of it.1 late night 1 early morning and a hard track session possibly to blame?

The sun came up briefly and the main objective , to beat the rain, was achieved but that was about all. 56miles @16.1 mph 4000 feet of climbing . Not thrilled NP 180watts.

Home and thought about going back to bed but made the fatal school boy error of ‘popping down’ to Feel good inc to see how the run was going. I did that in my running kit. Then decided to do the 7 mile tt race . It really was raining. Started off 9th at 30 sec intervals caught everyone by lap 2. Main objective was to not get caught by ollie for 5 mins by the end. Think the rain went from horizontal to inverted on the second lap and the back lane in the wind was a joy. To the bone. Got the 7miles done in 45.10 which was ok on the back of the early 60. Ollie beat me by 4 mins ,Dan mumford by 40 secs so got third. Settle for that . Only 4 mins behind ollie on very tired legs. Spent the rest of the day doing surprising little. Cos if you count the rain i’d almost done a half IM today. lol