Thursday, March 18, 2010

10 more sleeps to go...

It has now come down to this. The hard training is complete, whatever physiological changes training is supposed to induce should have been induced by now. The body now needs to rest, repair any damage and build up fuel stores (closer to the race).

Aside from an immune system that has been brought to it's knees, I did manage to pull through the heavy training relatively unscathed. No big injuries, thankfully. I am throwing back plenty of pills and potions to get the immune system back to 100% and get over these few illnesses, but really all it needs is rest. I haven't minded giving it that for the last few days, enjoying the sleep-ins, being able to eat dinner with the family at a reasonable hour, not going through 4 sets of clothes each day.

The bike should be ready, getting the final tune to make sure everything is running smoothly. A few light, short rides over the weekend will be enough to settle it in to the new cables.

Looking forward to all this being over, the race, the final hurdle. Where all will be revealed: was the training enough? was it the right training? am I capable of putting together 3 decent efforts? am I going to be happy with whatever I achieve? I guess we will find out in 10 days time.