Last Thursday I came up with a new format on my turbo trainer to simulate the race I'll be doing this weekend. There are no "easy bits", just changes of pace - so I'll either have the trainer on a hard setting or I'll be going flat out on an easy setting in the hardest gear. After half an hour last Thursday I felt like my heart was going to smash my ribs out of my chest!
I didn't get to do any riding or running over the weekend as I was in Cork for a stag do. I did, however do a full day's sea kayaking, which was brilliant. I only had 4 hours' sleep on Friday night and 5 hours' sleep on Saturday then got back home on Sunday at 2am and went to work at normal time! As you can imagine, I felt horrific.
When I got home last night I felt like I would fall asleep while I walked from the car to the house. After sitting down for a minute my nextdoor neighbour came round to ask if I wanted to go for a run. Stupidly I said yes. We did the Dale Winton challenge in a reasonably quick 45 minutes.
While I was running I realised that I wouldn't get many chances for bike riding in this week (Wednesday being my only free night) which concerned me as I have the big race at the weekend.
So, when I got back from the run I put my cycling shorts straight on and got on the turbo trainer to do the same race simulation I did last Thursday.
I reckon it was probably pretty realistic too! Ridiculously hard riding after no sleep when you're already tired will be just like doing the 24 hour race!
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