Into the last week we go

Thursday

listened to the rugby online first off and headed over to pick up hollie and aled.went for a swim on the course. Hollie was a different swimmer today. She purchased yesterday a swim skin and went from failing to keep up with Aled and i to leading the way today. All over it. Unfortuneately so were the sea lice. forgotten about them but they were there today in abundance.
Aled wasnt feeling the love out there today and bailed early. His swim skin turns up tomorrow. So it’ll b me holding on to those two saturday morning on the course trial out .

Went for pancakes and bacon overlooking the swim course. Met a guy who had chained himself to the pier whilst he protested that ‘Ironman’ (that has now been taken over by a Chinese Business consortium ) were trying to cut corners and were prepared to only pay 30k for the use of the pier for the week instead of the normal 60k. £183 million a year they make apparently .Only dollars though not pounds

JFST for a few hours and deliberated about going for a run. As power was down yesterday on the bike. Although didnt really push the swim this morning. had a snooze felt guilty and went for a run. This actually went quite well although very hot. Ran down Ali i drive then back to town 8 miles in 1 hour 3 mins. Best run ive had out here thats for sure. Wasnt smashing it so find out if i can hold that. Its 3 hours 30 pace for the marathon.Got straight in a cold shower when i got home and JFST for the rest of the day.

Went out for a Thail for dinner on Ali i had a few beers and a late night. fuck it. Slept ok the bimbled down Ali i to meet Aled and off we went on the bicycles.We found the road we were looking for and started to climb. An hour later we were still climbing.Up towards the top of the volcano. It eventually levelled out and we slowly descended. I was struggling a bit on the descent . Aled was going well and at times i had to fight to find his wheel. We stopped at a servo and fuelled up . Back in the room. We ended up back on the Queen k 26 miles out. We went 2 up and smashed out the last 25miles at around 250 watts. I was holding 270 -290 when i felt like it where was this power yesterday?? Ended up back at lava java for a vanilla milk shake. We were in with the cool kids. Headed home 75 miles in the bag. Average speed was 19.2mph . Which considering we only made 31miles in the first 2 hrs of climbing was pretty good. Are these crappy sessions and lack of power all due to dehydration? Eating a lot less on the bike too???

Mr Merrony phoned and is in the building. Hopefully meeting him tomorrow before the practice swim.