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Training is going great guns here in Oz and I’ve just come to the end of a training block so am this week enjoying a ‘rest’ week. It seems strange calling it a rest week as I’ll still be doing more training than I would have done during an average/high week when I was working last year, but I can’t tell you how excited I am at the thought of not having to get up at 5am or earlier every day this week! Breakfast in bed – yippee!
My new PowerTap arrived last week so it’s been great fun playing with that. Hopefully it will prove to be a really useful training and racing tool. Already I’ve seen how I tend to smash my way up hills thrashing out big watts only to coast down them at zero watts – time to change my ways methinks!
I’m feeling a lot stronger on the bike after some consistent riding through December & January so it will be good to train by power through February & March. The Aussies are in their race season now so it’s hard not to get swept along with race fever and be tempted to do a lot of race pace/high intensity work, but I have to keep reminding myself that this is winter base training time otherwise by the time our race season arrives I’ll be well and truly spent.
A call home to the UK this morning served as a great reminder that it’s winter. My mum was cranking up the central heating and telling me about all the snow on the ground, which was hard to imagine while sitting here putting on Factor 50 sun cream!
Enjoy the snowball fights…
Cheers
EK