5 Weeks To Go

One of our loyal readers has commented that we have not been putting up the weekly mileage counts anymore.  This was because they seemed interesting at first, but then... not so much.  The comparison though, might be a little interesting.

Our first full week back after the new year:

(T-41 weeks and counting until New Zealand)

	Matt	Caroline
Swim
Hours	1	1
Sessions	1	1
Distance (m)	1000	1500
Bike
Hours	3	1
Distance (km)	65	15
Elevation (m)	548	0
Run
Hours	1	1
Sessions	2	2
Distance (km)	1	7
Cross Training
Hours
Distance (km)	23	24
Elevation (m)	1200	1300
Descent (m)
Total Hours	5	3

Last week:

(T-5 weeks and counting until New Zealand)

	Matt	Caroline
Swim
Hours	3	3
Sessions	3	3
Distance (m)	5200	5600
Bike
Hours	6.5	4.5
Distance (km)	164	110
Elevation (m)	2240	1500
Run
Hours	3	1
Sessions	3	1
Distance (km)	13.5	4
Cross Training
Hours	0	0
Distance (km)	0	0
Elevation (m)	0	0
Descent (m)	0	0
Total Hours	12.5	8

Wow.  This is how people get hooked on triathlons.  Every year you look back and think about how much more you could have done.

Things seem to be coming together really well right now. We are both as fast as we were hoping to be on our bikes, and keep getting a little bit faster every time.  My knees have not stopped me in any of my workouts for the past month, which is fantastic - yesterday I ran more cumulative distance than I have in two and a half years.  And we may have just made a change to both of our swimming styles which could shave big chunks of time off...we will test later this week.  All that is left to do is not get injured.

Speaking of not getting injured, here is last week's Sunday ride track:


And here it is with notes:

I was out front of the crash, but Caroline narrowly avoided a pileup by riding up into an orchard.  5 people went down.  No serious injuries, but we definitely do not need another one of those right now, so we decided that as of that moment, we would not be doing any more group rides this season.  Then half an hour later, I rode by a man waving a walking stick at me.  That was strange, but stranger was having to stop 50 metres later to let a black bear mosey across the road.

Two and a half more weeks in Kelowna.  One week in Auckland.  Then we are done.  Let's hope the bears hold off.