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Date: 11 January 2005 19:58:50
the latter part of week 1 was a bit of a disaster as after a couple of days of training (some a little more intense than idea at this stage) i succumbed to the cold that had been hanging around since christmas.
and to make things worse in making ready my bike for an easy ride on saturday i discovered some paint missing along the line of one of the welds! clearly the weld had shifted so after a bit of ummmming and errrring i took it to the bike shop who also thought it looked dubious and are sending it back to the manufacturers. so i returned home bikeless!
with a poor week 1 i already had to modify my plan and decided to try a repeat of this preparation week instead of the first week of my base training section. monday was a recovery or rest day and i took the complete rest option! trying to be sure i was reasonably recovered from the cold.
tonight i managed a short easy run although i almost stopped my stopwatch at one point to force me to be not bothered about the time.. and concentrate on running at a low exertion. which i succeeded in the end.
i have ordered my new gadget using the company travel insurance after my GPS got nicked, a garmin forerunner 301, i;ve read the pdf manual online and drooled at the functionality... runnng and cycling pace, heart rate .. all logged for analysis.. mmm.
also being bikeless ive resurrected the winter training / commuting / general hack bike project based on my old MTB.... it has slick tyres on now, lovely retro thumbshifters and thanks to jon at work his reject V-brakes. so even if my racer doesnt reappear for a while i should be up and running with this soon.