Internal Mono(b)log

Spring training camp at Mont Tremblant is nearly here!!!

This time tomorrow I’ll hopefully be starting the drive to Tremblant for 10 days of focused training.

Hopefully the weather and the black-flies play nice 🙂

Day 3 brought us a 50ish KM time trial on the bike and then some short tempo runs with video analysis in the afternoon.

Here’s my TT.  Was pretty happy with it, especially given the baked feeling my legs have at the moment.

Was definitely channeling Jens Voigt for portions of this ride.

Fuel today for the TT was EFS Liquid Shot and a big portion of my continual ability to push this hard day after day is definitely thanks to ExtremeEndurance.

Plan for today was a big brick.  Here’s the bike before the ride.

My legs were pretty smoked from hill repeats yesterday and my power file shows it.  Saddle sores starting to be a bit of an issue, which sucks, but my tea-tree oil will hopefully help remediate that.

My back started to cramp up in the last 45 minutes and so I scrapped the run and did water support for the folks who did the 21k run.  I may still run tonight but my back is still kinda angry, so gonna play it by ear.

My fueling today was PickyBars and Gu Rocktane Drink, used some EFS PreRace to help push through the fatigue and ended the ride with a First Endurance Ultragen.

Hill repeats today on the Lac Superior segment.  Here’s my TrainingPeaks data.

Good Times!  Easy recovery spin planned for this afternoon.  Fueled with a flask of FirstEndurance EFS liquid shot and a couple of PickyBars

Most people are here, still waiting for a few to arrive tonight, but those of us who are here start punishing ourselves training today.  We’re doing hill repeats ad nauseum today.  Currently it’s a bit cool 6C, but it’s looking like it’s going to be a nice day.

People are drinking coffee, eating breakfast and generally waiting for the temps to come up a few degrees.  We’re probably going to head out around 9am, so a few hours to kill.

Individual athlete goodie bags containing ExtremeEndurance, a Finis swim cap, PureProtein bars, socks from TrainingPeaks and 1st Endurance Water bottles were a hit and our nutrition buffet with 1st Endurance, GuEnergy, Pickybars is setup.

Good times!