Hawaii unsurprisingly is still lovely! The surf has settle down a bit, which has made swimming in the sea here even more pleasant as the fish, turtles and dolphins have come out to play! (although I'm yet to see the last - but there's always tomorrow)
Yesterday started with a long swim - trying to swim the course, but with the sun rising and my dreadful eyes i couldn't see the small marker buoy and just swam in it's general direction. So i roughly swam the course. Then Yvette and I headed out on a 4hour easy ride along the Queen K highway. Drank 4 1/2 litres and didn't pee at all - slightly worrying. The Boys (Simon and Steve) collected us at the 76 mile point, having ridden 4hours and 2 mins - they were cutting there arrival fine. Simon's spoke broke when he was out riding this morning, so a lot of the afternoon was spent at a bike shop! with him playing with spokes and nipples! it's not yet fixed so more of the same tomorrow possibly. we were charges $120 dollars to fly each bike out here so he needs to get some riding in.
Today was a bike/ run session - the last long session before next weekend 50 mile bike with some race pace intervals then 10 mile run along Alii Drive. Very hot and very sweaty. Glad the session is done and went well. Felt shocking for first 2 miles of the run, but once I'd got used to feeling hot and having heavy legs, my running came together. Had my legs up for most of the afternoon. Easy stroll into town and customary coffee stop!
Legs are feeling tired for today's session, ready to taper properly now!
6 days till race day.
About Me
- Sarah Lovelock
- Apologies if what i've written doesen't make sense. Occasionally i'll get Simon to review before i post but most of the time you'll get my dyslexic spelling and grammar. So just swap a few letters around here and there and it should make sense